20241009.md

Repository activities from 2024-09-25 to 2024-10-08

Repository roundup

Network and telephony stack

• connman, the connection manager, Laakkonenjussi reverted a previous commit preventing the device to stay on access point mode after enabling tethering (C2 and XperiaX were impacted). Upstream reverted this commit also. Laakkonenjussi also proposed a commit to avoid the vpn daemon to take precedence over the connman daemon when dealing with connections and disconnections.

• libcommhistory, the library to access SMS/phone history, dcaliste gave a name over D-Bus to processes dealing with the communication history. This allows to filter or not access to such processes. pvuorela later fixed an issue in the name attribution.

• sailjail-permissions, the configuration files for system-wide sandbox permissions, dcaliste allowed to listen to modifications of the communication history database from inside the jail. This should fix this reported issue, making the call log not updated when deleting an entry from the command line.

Calendar stack

• buteo-sync-plugin-caldav, the synchronisation framework plugin for CalDAV content, dcaliste simplified a bit the account-related code using an Accounts::AccountService object as suggested by lduboeuf from UBPorts. It also allowed to provide support to the way server settings are stored in the account for UBPorts. pvuorela cleaned up the spec file.

Native browser

• qtmozembed, Qt bindings for the Gecko engine, pvuorela did various cleans up, including for instance the removal of old Qt4 remainings.

• sailfish-components-webview, the high-level QML components exposing a web page, flypig updated the webview with ESR 91. rainemak proposed a simple way to map the screen resolution to the property layout.css.devPixelsPerPx .

• gecko-dev, Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine, rainemak merged in the large upgrade work of flypig to move the engine from ESR 78 to ESR 91. direc85 limited the single thread compilation to Rust. pvuorela proposed to clean some compilation warnings. rainemak also commited several minor fixes, including changes like:

• removing the f-suffix in 0.1f values since they were not recognised as float anymore because of the f-suffix.
• changing CSS default values, making sans-serif fonts the default, and making margin and padding to zero.

Main interface

• dsme, device state management entity, spiiroin added a way to block shutdown. From the commit message, it appears that if device is powered off while startup wizard is running, glitching 1st boot actions can cause persistent problems on subsequent bootups. Blocking shutdown at the software level is a way to reduce the possibility of this situation to appear.

• libdsme, a library for DSME, the device state management entity, spiiroin added D-Bus constants for blocking / allowing shutdown.

Low level libraries

• libaccounts-glib, a library to handle online-service accounts, pvuorela updated it, both in its native GLib implementation to 1.67 and in its Qt bindings to 1.17.

• nemo-qml-plugin-contacts, QML bindings to access the contact database, lduboeuf added a GSettings backend, besides the existing one using MLite. It would allow to use it in UBPorts where MLite is not used. pvuorela added some minor adjustments to the code.

• libshadowutils, a library to used shadow tools, direc85 updated it to 4.16.0.

• mlite, the configuration storage library, pvuorela fixed compilation warnings with newer GCC versions.

• xdg-dbus-proxy, filtering proxy for D-Bus connections, pvuorela updated it to 0.1.6.

• pvuorela updated the various packages related to SE linux:

  • libsepol,
  • libselinux,
  • libsemanage,
  • checkpolicy,
  • policycoreutils,
  • secilc,
  • setools.

Developer's corner

• cmake, the (other) build system, mal updated it to 3.30.3 and add support for cmake rpm dependency generation.

• python, the popular and widely used programming language, mal ensured that building Python 2 is done using a version of OpenSSL compatible with it.

• shared-mime-info, the Freedesktop MIME info database, jusa added support for Abdroid package bundles, adding file extensions like *.apkm and *.xapk.

• direc85 created new repositories to ease Rust building:

  • cargo-c, a helper to build and install c-like libraries from Rust,
  • cargo-packaging, macros and tools to assist with cargo and rust packaging,
  • cargo-auditable, a tool to embed auditing information in ELF sections of rust binaries.

• gdk-pixbuf, image handling library for GTK and friends, direc85 fixed a binary naming issue in the packaging preventing the build of librsvg.