On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:36 +0100, Marcus König wrote: > Hi there, > > I saw with delight, that aseprite is in the debian package repo. Not anymore, it isn't. Aseprite has been out of the distribution since Debian Stretch > However, the version is outdated. > Now I was wondering if there are plans to update it? Current version is > 1.2.25. Aseprite is no longer distributed under a free license. See https://dev.aseprite.org/2016/09/01/new-source-code-license/. While (it appears) you can still download and use it, you cannot redistribute it: which is forbidden for Debian. Unless they change that policy completely, for everyone, no version later than 1.1.7 can be included. My guess, though I haven't verified this, is that the team decided to remove it from the repository, given they would no longer be updating it. > My initial tries of compiling libskia on my raspberry pi 400 > unfortunately weren't really successful. Skia isn't currently included in the Debian repositories, though it probably should be: it's the rendering engine for Firefox and Chromium. Can someone comment on that? Is it a header-only library, or similar? That, unfortunately, means the best resource for learning how to compile libskia will probably be the upstream, skia.org. It's also worth noting that, as you are clearly running Raspbian from a Stretch release, a lot of your packages are probably out-of-date. You should probably check your '/etc/apt/sources.list' file, switching any mention of 'stretch' to 'buster', before running "sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade" > Could anyone perhaps help me with this? If a start point could be > provided, I could in turn also help with > updating the package? As mentioned, this package cannot be updated in Debian, or Raspbian for that matter. Thank you for your offer to help, though! Maybe checkout gimp or pixmap? If you find another open-source sprite editor, we'd be happy to check it out! Calum M
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