20240202.md

Repository activities from 2024-01-16 to 2024-02-05

Repository roundup

Multimedia stack

• gssdp, the GLib SSDP resource discovery library, mal updated it to 1.6.3.

• gupnp, the GLib UPnP library, mal updated it to 1.6.6, updated the av plugin to 0.14.1 and the dlna one to 0.12.0, also moving the repositories to use submodule.

• rygel, a collection of UPnP/DLNA services, mal upgraded it to 0.42.5.

• qtgrilo, a framework for discovering and browsing media, Qt bindings, pvuorela added a property signaling a fetching data state.

• amber-mpris, QML bindings for remote control of music players, tomin1 fixed a segmentation fault in the property change timer.

• libsdl-gfx, the simple direct media layer - graphics primitives, Thaodan removed upstream enabling MMX on Arm.

• sdl, a multimedia library, mal worked in a branch to upgrade it to version 2.30.0. He also upgraded add-on libraries in the process, with libsdl-mixer to 2.8.0, libsdl-image moving to 2.8.2, and libsdl-ttf to 2.22.0.

Communication bits

• connman, the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi modified it to emit a change signal also when default service is changed, so higher layers can properly interpret it. LaakkonenJussi also worked to reduce the difference with upstream by selecting several upstream commits.

• libconnman-qt, QML bindings for the connection manager, completely moved route parsing into ConnMan.

• messagingframework, the email Qt framework, dcaliste merged latest upstream, bringing a fix for *.asc attachments being not displayed in the email application.

• nemo-qml-plugin-email, QML bindings for emails, dcaliste fixed a bug creating duplicated files on attachment download. The change also allows to save the attachments directly in ~/Downloads/ instead of putting them in a complex tree structure, and is currently under discussion.

• bluez5, the Linux Bluetooth stack, mal moved to version 5.72.

User interface

• lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), krnlyng added a signal when the client closes a window. This signal (terminated) notifies that the application associated with the surface has terminated abnormally. This is based on qtwayland signaling when the client destroys a surface.

Other applications

• sailfish-office, the document application, dcaliste proposed to store passwords for read-protected PDF documents.

Low level libraries

• tzdata, the time zone data (and some other geographical data), mal proposed to update it to 2023d.

• zypper, a package manager, mal updated it to 1.14.68 and its library companion to 17.31.28.

• python3-zypp, Python module for zypper, mal fixed compatibility with libzypp 17.29.0.

• aspell, a spell checker, markolemmetty updated it to 0.60.8.1, fixing CVE-2019-25051 vulnerability.

• fakeroot, gives a fake root environment, mal updated it to 1.29.

• libsoup3, the web access library based on GObject, is a new repository separated from older version 2 of the libsoup library. mal started it with version 3.4.4.

• ca-certificates, the system-wide authentication certificates, mal updated them to 2023.2.62_v7.0.401.

Developper's corner

Thaodan removed the %make_install macro for RPM packaging. He thus fixed many packaging directives in various repositories:

• in telepathy-accounts-signon,
• in tzdata-timed,
• in libmlocale,
• in qr-filter-qml-plugin,

There is also an on-going maintainance task to remove the static libraries (and libtool .la files) from the distributed package when they don't make sense. This obviously will reduce a bit the download and installation footprint for the next update:

• in util-linux,
• in gdb,
• in qtwayland,
• in procps,
• in qtbase,
• in btrfs-progs,
• in gmime,
• in libpcap,
• in libsdl-sound,
• in udisks2,
• in libusb1,
• in nspr,
• in connman-network-monitor,
• in libsdl-gfx,

• grep, the searching command line tool, mal replace the dependency on pcre with pcre2.

• gecko-dev, Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine, mal backported fixes to build against newer glibc.

• sailfish-secrets, a framework to use encryption techniques, mal fixed a compilation issue with newer g++.

• osc, the command line interface to work with OBS (the Open Build Service), thaodan is proposing to upgrade from 0.168.2 to 1.5.1.

• PackageKit, a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user, mal backported a fix for gcc 10.

• libglibutil, a library extending GLib with convenient utilities, slava added a function, gutil_idle_pool_get_default(), making usage of GUtilIdlePool simpler in multi-threaded environments. slava also modified this class with two commits, one treating NULL parameter as the default pool and another returning the value as pushed to the pool.

• qemu-usermode, a universal CPU emulator, mal changed the statx call to use the one from glibc instead of the syscall one. Like that sb2 will be able to intercept the call.

• scratchbox2, the cross-compilation tool used by the SDK, mal added a wrapper for statx call. Thaodan replaced deprecated egrep and fgrep and used the GNU option for regexp instead of the Posix one (the version of sed is currently too old for that).

• libshadowutils, a library to used shadow tools, Thaodan updated it to 0.0.4, also upgrading the packaging to use cmake macros and packaging Sailfish OS changes as a patch.