Re: xfce4-screensaver
Hi Yves-Alexis
On 2019/01/03 18:16, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 09:54 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> I'll try to reach out to Peter but light-locker looks a bit unmaintained. It's
>> too late for Buster but it might be worth having options for Bullseye (if we
>> can have some kind of long-term commitment that xfce4-screensaver will be
>> maintained).
Ah, I was a bit surprised by this because from your earlier statements I
was under the impression that light-locker was much better maintained
and had a much more sound architecture.
> I think I managed to fix the underlying issue, but the current state of the
> code is a bit scary. I've looked at it for a day and poked here and there to
> fix deprecations, but that's a lot of duplicate work since the code is
> actually from gnome-screensaver, mate-screensaver and xfce4-screensaver.
>
> It seems that the work has already been done for xfce4-screensaver (it'd be
> nice if it could be submitted to mate/gnome teams too btw).
>
> In an attempt at having a bit more future-proofs options for Bullseye, we can
> try importing it to the xfce-team umbrella. Could you move/copy you repository
> on salsa to https://salsa.debian.org/xfce-extras-team/xfce4-screensaver (I'm
> not sure if you have permissions but please ask if needed).
Yep, no problem. It's slightly behind upstream at the moment but that
will be trivial to catch up on.
> In xfce-team repositories we use git-buildpackage with pristine-tar, could you
> configure it as well? What's the current way to build the package?
I've somehow managed to avoid that workflow so far, but don't mind
looking into it for the xfce packages, I might ask for some pointers on
irc later though.
> Also is it possible to just *not* support the various xscreensavers stuff at
> all and just lock?
Yeah that's basically the 'blank' screensaver that just blanks the
screen and then whatever power management settings is applied will kick in.
So, what I'll do in the meantime is update the package, move it to
xfce-team along with git-buildpackage and pristine-tar implemented, and
then I'll report back to this list?
I agreed with what you said in previous mails regarding security, and
since this is still beta I do believe that it might be better just
uploading to experimental and skipping this for buster. I'm certainly
not hard set on that, so if you (and other debian-xfce folk) feel that
more users might benefit from having it in buster, then perhaps that
should be considered too.
-Jonathan
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