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

[chrys <chrys linux-a11y org>]

Howdy,

cool, that you get it installed :). let me know if you find any issues 
in orca with plugin system git.
great that is getting tested, thanks!

Am 11.06.21 um 12:39 schrieb Patrick ZAJDA:
> Hello,
>
>
> Right, I've just done it on Debian Buster.
>
> I only had to install the backports version of meson after installing 
> all dependencies of libpeas (sudo apt build-dep libpeas) and I also 
> installed the python3 versions of libpeas dependencies then I followed 
> these instructions: 
> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/gnome/libpeas.html
>
>
> Now I can run orca with the plugin system.
>
> It is not the cleanest way to proceed as I overwritten installed 
> binaries by Debian but I have not encountered any issue.
>
>
> Hop this could help some other people.
>
>
> Le 10/06/2021 à 18:56, Didier Spaier via orca-list a écrit :
> > 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.
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