[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1053747: Bug#1053747: Upload phosh to bookworm-backports ?

[Guido Günther]

Hi Praveen,
I'm always in favour of providing newer phosh to users but see below for details:

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 02:33:52PM +0530, Pirate Praveen via Debian-on-mobile-maintainers wrote:
> Package: phosh
> Version: 0.32.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I think it'd be a good idea to provide new versions of phosh (with phoc,
> wlroots, feedbackd) via bookworm-backports. I was earlier daily driving
> mobian trixie on my Librem 5 but since its automatic suspend broke I could
> not continue using it [1]. So I'm using mobian bookworm but I miss the newer
> phosh (especially easy access to suspend button, which I use often for power
> saving).
> 
> I have built the debs already and started using it from yesterday. I have
> shared the debs in my personal repo [2]. I'd like to upload and help
> maintain it in bookworm-backports if you are okay with the idea of providing
> official backports.

I'm okay with the idea if you sign up to handle bug reports concerning
the backported versions. If that makes sense to you and Mobian has no
objections (as I think running it together with Mobian will be the main
use case for most people) we should maintain the backported branch in
the DebianOnMobile git too.

Note that backporting phosh will imply backporting phoc at some point
and might also break phosh-mobile-settings at some point (and that
requires newer libadwaita already (which requires newer GTK). That
shouldn't' prevent us from backporting just now, just wanted to lay out
that it might get a bit more involved in the future.

Cheers and thanks for having a look at this,
 -- Guido

> 
> Since pureos crimson is not yet useable, I think this would be useful for
> many who want a newer base OS.
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/librem5-support/-/issues/7
> [2] https://people.debian.org/~praveen/mobian/
> 
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