Bug#971426: vte2.91: Please build vte WITH_SIXEL

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Wed Sep 30 15:27:49 BST 2020


Control: tags -1 + upstream wontfix

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 13:10:36 +0200, Alex Waite wrote:
> Upstream now has Sixel support, but it seems that support is behind the
> WITH_SIXEL flag.

Sixel support was briefly in the vte 0.61.x development branch, but
it was removed before vte 0.62 (presumably it wasn't ready), so this
will have to wait for a new upstream release where they consider sixel
support to be ready for wider use.

The next upstream stable release cycle (GNOME 40) will be well after
the planned Debian 11 'bullseye' freeze, so this is not going to happen
until Debian 12; until then, this is "won't fix". We'll probably enable
sixel support as soon as there are 0.63.x releases with it included,
unless there's some reason to believe it's broken or unusable.

    smcv



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