Activating ddcutil support in Plasma in the Debian package

[Aurélien COUDERC]

Right, thanks for your feedback and the pointer to the comment.


Happy hacking !
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Aurélien

Le 01/07/2022 à 22:26, Sanford Rockowitz a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> ddcutil has been stable for some time now.  However, the ddcutil code in 
> powerdevil is no where near production ready, and should never be 
> enabled.  In fact it can crash powerdevil on return from screen sleep.  
> See this comment 
> <https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/issues/205#issuecomment-832397668> 
> from the developer.
> 
> Regards,
> Sanford
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/30/22 18:15, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
>> Dear Sanford,
>>
>> I’m from the Debian KDE packaging team and while reviewing 
>> dependencies for Plasma 5.25 I came accross the following build log:
>>
>>  * DDCUtil, DDCUtil library support is disabled by default as 
>> recommended by authors, add -DHAVE_DDCUTIL=On to enable
>>
>> As you seem to be the upstream author I was wondering whether you 
>> think that ddcutil is now stable enough that we could activate its 
>> support in Plasma’s powerdevil package in Debian.
>>
>> Obviously the last thing we want is to break everyone’s Plasma session 
>> (or even better everyone’s monitor)… :)
>>
>>
>> Thanks !
>> -- 
>> Aurélien
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