Fwd: package aseprite on raspian

[Marcus König <terminal0854@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone!

I managed to get it all compiled! Was quite an adventure. =D
In the past I created too much art in this program to switch, so 
ditching it wasn't
an option.

The main thing was to update to clang 11 - gcc/g++ 8 is too old and creates
a ton of strange problems. Then skia needed a couple of settings and 
additional packages
during compilation. It works perfectly on my Raspian Buster/Pi 400 now.

I get the mentioned license problematic. Not much that can be done about 
that I guess. =/
But sources are still available, so at least for private use it's an 
option to just
compile it locally.

If anyone wants my notes for building, give me a shout.

Cheers,
Marcus

On 30/11/2020 23:10, Markus Koschany wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I saw with delight, that aseprite is in the debian package repo.
> > However, the version is outdated.
> > Now I was wondering if there are plans to update it? Current version is
> > 1.2.25.
> No, we don't intend to update aseprite in Debian because the license 
> of the
> newer version is non-free. The program is no longer suitable for 
> Debian. There
> exists a fork of aseprite called LibreSprite. [1]
> Maybe the community there can help you with your compilation problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
On 30/11/2020 23:09, Calum McConnell wrote:
> 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 However, the version is outdated.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