bug#54385: closed (xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo)

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Your message dated Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:28:54 +0100
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xscreensaver-demo
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regarding xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo
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> xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo
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> Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:47:22 -0400
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> mu4e 1.6.10; emacs 27.2
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> Not sure why but the latest xscreensaver package no longer includes the
> xscreensaver-demo executable afaict?
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> Re: bug#54385: xscreensaver seems to be missing xscreensaver-demo
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> Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:28:54 +0100
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> Hi Christine,
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> Note that the name of this tool has changed upstream[0], but we're still 
> on an older version for now.  Building it:
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>     Warning: GTK version 2.24.33 was found, but at least one supporting
>              library (gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0) was not, so GTK can't be 
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>              Perhaps some of the development packages are not installed?
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>     Warning: The GTK libraries do not seem to be available; the
>              `xscreensaver-demo' program requires them.
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> Where gdk-pixbuf-xlib is of course ‘a deprecated library’ and ‘[n]o 
> newly written code should ever use this library’ so that'll be fun to 
> maintain the coming years.
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> Our gdk-pixbuf package still mentions gdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0.pc in an 
> obsolete comment but doesn't actually install it.
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> Oh:
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>   NEWS: - Split the gdk-pixbuf-xlib library to a separate repository
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> The repository is archived and read-only:
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>   https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gdk-pixbuf-xlib
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> Oh that is going to be *super* fun to maintain.
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> At this point I'd usually go ahead and package the beast, but I don't 
> use xscreensaver.  How important is this binary?  (-demo sounds 
> unimportant, -settings very, but it's presumably the same thing.)
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> In any case an update to xscreensaver would seem prudent first.
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> Kind regards,
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> T G-R
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> Sent from a Web browser.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
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> [0]: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/changelog.html
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