Matthias Klumpp

Fun times in AppStream and Debian land: GNOME 2048 dropped the "GNOME" part from its app name, so that it is now just named "2048". Nobody expected app names to be plain integers, so when this value is written to a JSON/YAML file by libappstream's C code, it writes/reads a str, but type-aware parsers (in Python) parse it as int. In Debian's downstream tooling, something that should be str is suddenly an int and fails validation.

This in turn halted package publishing on the Debian archive...

I had to build a Windows app (for scientists...) and while we do love to complain a lot about fragmentation and all the issues we have on Linux: Windows is a different kind of hell, with fragmentation just being at a different spot!

Creating CI for Windows was absolute hell, vcpkg is nice, but without caching slows down automation a lot, trying to build an MSI package was a very bad idea (what a crazy design from a Linux perspective!), getting anything reproducible isn't easy... 1/2

The xx-zones #Wayland protocol for client window-positioning hints has been merged as experimental protocol into w-p a few days ago! 🎉

This means toolkits and compositors are now able to implement it and experiment with it, and we will see how the protocol fares in the wild and is actually used by toolkits (which was a matter of great debate). It also permits all the prototype implementations to converge on one protocol, instead of shipping incompatible snapshots. 1/x

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

@drakulix@social.dreampi.es Hey! Can I find you at FOSDEM today somewhere? 😁