Mastodawn

untrusted✓May 10

There now is even a debian backport version for emacs-jabber (aka jabber.el) - including omemo support:

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1750294/accepted-emacs-jabber-0106-1bpo131-source-all-amd64-into-stable-backports/

If you don't know debian backports yet:

https://backports.debian.org/

#xmpp #debian #backport #omemo #emacs

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Sven Geggus Dec 4

*argh* Ich schaffe es nicht einen #Backport von #virtualbox 7.2.4 für #Debian 13 zu bauen.
Es scheitert an: undefined reference to `RTR3InitExe'
Im unstable chroot läuft der compiler durch.
So ein Mist. Auf die Installation der binaries von http://virtualbox.org/ habe ich ehrlich gesagt nur sehr begrenzt Lust.

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Vagrant Cascadian Apr 22, 2025

Impatient to get a #Backport of #Dino 0.5 for #Debian #Bookworm
... but the build logs were already published, including the hashes of all the binaries, I went ahead and performed a #ReproducibleBuilds check of locally built packages for amd64, arm64 and the "all" architecture... and came up with bit-for-bit identical results!

https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/dino-im-reproduced/

By the time you read this, identical binaries may already land on the Debian archive. I have a newer dino installed now! Try for yourself!

Index of /~vagrant/dino-im-reproduced

Mason Pines Mar 15, 2025

So I am on #debian stable (#bookworm) using the #xfce desktop.

Today the #xfce4-weather-plugin stopped working. This was due to a change upstream that the xfce developers had already fixed in version 0.11.3 but #debian doesn't have that version yet.

So I spent a bit of time to create my own #backport package by downloading the .dsc file and source, adding the fixes to the source, updating the .dsc file to match changes and hashes, then compiling to a .deb file via a docker baseline image (so I don't taint my main install).

Took a few attempts to work through this to get it working as I was trying to also adjust libsoup version but that wasn't required (yet) and just added complication.

Anyway, 30 minutes later I now have a working weather panel applet, as crucially this is a #bpo .deb file and properly installed so can be upgraded by #debian if and when the time comes.

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Marcel Wiegand Jan 3, 2025

@cwansart IMO, the answer is no, as it depends more on many other factors. E.g. I have seen often enough that things are sometimes no longer fixed in #debian. It could even be that with rolling releases you get a fix earlier than the #backport for an #lts version is ready.

Of course, #distribution also plays a role, but I think it is more important to keep the #attackvectors as low as possible, i.e. to keep the system as minimal as possible. Fewer packages mean fewer potential #vulnerabilities.

Mike Rochefort

Oct 26, 2024

@Cfkschaller How crazy and/or how much of a non-starter this idea would even be:

RHEL Workstation's desktop components as an application stream.

The core motivation here is to enable RHEL customers to use the latest Workstation environment on older RHEL versions (within logistical and practical reasoning). For example, GNOME 47 from RHEL 10 available for installation on RHEL 9.

#RedHat #RHEL #Workstation #Desktop #Backport #Module #GNOME #GNOMEShell #AppStream #ApplicationStream