Repository activities from 2023-10-31 to 2023-11-27

Repository roundup

gecko-dev, Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine, a lot of activity took place in the branch dedicated to upgrading the browser to ESR91 version. mal fixed builds for non aarch64 architectures, rainemak fixed the touch screen issue, while flypig continued improving the upgrade.

messagingframework, the email Qt framework, dcaliste upgraded to the upstream branch implementing IPC through DBus. This is coming in conjunction with a change in email permissions for sailjail, since the message server is now using DBus instead of a Qcop socket. pvuorela cleaned the upstream and the code in patches not to get warnings anymore during compilation. dcaliste reworked the patches and proposed to separate into two the main patch to be able to slowly try to integrate it upstream.
nemo-qml-plugin-email, QML bindings for emails, simonschmeisser exposed in QML email list models the response status of an email (replied, forwarded...). dcaliste flagged the outgoing emails with a response status, when necessary.
nfcd, the daemon for near field communication, slava externalised the code into a new library libnfcdef responsible to build and parse NDEF data. NDEF means NFC Data Exchange Format and is the syntax used between devices and tags. nfcd has been updated to use this new library. libnfcdef integration is still pending though, and slava started a new branch to continue the development based on this new library.

droidmedia, Android media wrapper library, simonschmeisser while testing mal's developments on Camera2 API, opened two new issues: one about exposure correction and one about using the flash as a torch.
ffmpeg, a framework to encode and decode multimedia resources, poetaster proposed to add compilation of support for text drawing. This would allow text overlays and subtitles in Videoworks, for instance.

lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), pvuorela restarted the work from robang74, making the README file more up-to-date, with a new pull request.

sensorfw, sensor framework, Tofee fixed a build issue for the Yocto distribution when using meta-qt6. Because of wrongly set macro variable, sensorfw was looking for modules in at the wrong path. Herrie82 is working on making the changes for LuneOS accepted in SailfishOS. While these changes concerned newer versions of Qt, some also deal with how the package is built with libhybris. After some exchanges with mal, Tofee is proposes a simpler version.
libdbusaccess, providing more fine-grained D-Bus access control, slava pushed 5 new commits, tidying the build process.
libglibutil, a library extending GLib with convenient utilities, following an issue with hidden symbols when built with CLang, slava ensured that all (and only) required symbols are exported. slava also proposed to clean warnings due to issues with C cast in code.

llvm, the machinery to build compilers, piggz proposed to package the lld excetable, which is a linker coming with LLVM tool chains and needed to build Android kernels for instance.
gcc, the GNU compiler collection, mal created a branch where he backported two patches fixing two different compiler internal errors.
hw-ramdisk, tools to be used to create init ramdisk for booting Sailfish OS, mal created a patch adding support for lz4 compression, and also disabled parallel builds.