Re: [orca-list] Pluginsystem for Orca using libpeas

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi,

I would go for: 3. Build libpeas from source.

Make a package for it just took 40 seconds on my laptop.

I'll leave for others to tell you how to do that for Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Didier


Le 10/06/2021 à 18:44, Geoff Shang a écrit :
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, chrys wrote:
>
> > if this commit is true, you need at least version 1.26 of libpeas from 
> > January 2020.
>
> Debian Bullseye (the next release) has libpeas 1.28.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be in buster-backports.
>
> I looked at the version in Bullseye. It actually has fewer dependencies 
> than the version in Buster, and many of them are the same version or are 
> covered by packages in Buster.
>
> However, it depends on libpython3.9, and as the version of Python in 
> Buster is 3.7.3 and one of the dependencies for libpython3.9 is libc6 >= 
> 2.29 which is higher than the version in Buster, trying to pull in 
> libpeas from Bullseye will result in an upgrade of libc6 which will suck 
> in a whole lot of other packages.
>
> As I see it, your choices are:
>
> 1.  Upgrade to Bullseye.  Bullseye is currently frozen and is likely to 
> release soon, so this might be safe enough to do.  I'm going to do this 
> on one of my systems for a similar reason - I need Python > 3.7.  You 
> should read the release notes first though as there may be important 
> changes (you should do this anyway).
>
> 2.  Pull in libpeas from Bullseye anyway and accept all the upgraded 
> packages.  This will result in a partially upgraded system which is 
> probably not a good idea, especially given that lib6 will be upgraded.
>
> 3.  Build libpeas from source. I have no idea at all how involved this 
> is and it may well be more work than it's worth, particularly given the 
> dependencies.
>
> 4.  Wait for Bullseye to release.
>
> HTH,
> Geoff.