Re: Newer Meson backports for stretch/buster?
在 2020-03-13星期五的 11:52 -0700，Matt Turner写道：
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > 在 2020-03-13星期五的 11:10 -0700，Matt Turner写道：
> > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 1:44 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Wayland (and GTK, so I've heard) are blocked from requiring Meson
> > > > newer than 0.49 since that is the latest available in stretch and
> > > > buster.
> > > >
> > > > Would someone be willing to backport a newer Meson version to stretch
> > > > and buster?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Matt
> > >
> > > Anyone want to help make Debian not limit upstream projects...?
> >
> > I re-read your email and found it a little bit confusing. If Wayland and
> > GTK
> > upstream are explicitly not using newer meson **because** Debian stretch
> > and
> > buster does not have newer meson, please do me a favor and tell them to go
> > ahead and use the features provided by newer meson, do not get limited by
> > Debian's version decision.
> >
> > Pushing new meson in stretch-backports-sloppy or buster-backports *is*
> > possible, but this won't help in changing the default meson version
> > provided
> > by the main repo of Stretch/Buster since the backports repository is not
> > enabled by default.
> >
> > Please let me know if I understood your concern correctly.
>
> You understood correctly, unfortunately.
>
> See
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/issues/296
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/merge_requests/68#note_429559
>
> At least for Wayland/Weston, installing packages from -backports seems
> to be fine:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml
>
> I'm completely of the mind that limiting upstream projects to what is
> in Debian stable is insane, especially (1) with the acknowledgement
> that you're not concerned with the distro's workload, (2) that it's
> trivial to install newer Meson with pip, and (3) that Debian is
> telling you not to limit yourself on its behalf!
Oh well...
I think Martin is working on it. Maybe we can expect some process in the near
future.
--
Thanks,
Boyuan Yang
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