[pkg-lxqt-devel] Bug#1023472: Workaround implemented for live images

[Roland Clobus]

Hello Cyril,

On 19/05/2023 00:59, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Speaking as someone who happen{ed,s} to come across live-build things for
> unrelated reasons:
> 
> Roland Clobus <rclobus at rclobus.nl> (2023-05-18):
>> I've implemented a workaround for the live images at [1].
>> As a result, the xfwm4 desktop manager is now the only desktop manager.
> 
> This seems to have been merged in live-build master.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is a workaround or a real fix; if that's the
> latter, it should probably be reassigned to live-build?

I consider it a workaround, because the netinst D-I is still affected. 
If the LXQt desktop is selected in the installer, the Wayland desktop 
manager is used instead of xfwm4.
The MR for a proposed fix (in tasksel) is at [1].

> Two questions, with RC 4 in mind (and as a reminder, while I'll be dealing
> with D-I Bookworm RC 4 with a focus on… the installer primarily, live images
> are being built and released at the same time):
>   - Is there a live-build upload planned to publish this fix to unstable?

There is no (direct) need for an upload due to this workaround. The 
building process is primarily tied to git, not to the Debian archive:
The daily live images are generated reproducibly by using the timestamp 
of the last DAK run to time travel back to the corresponding git commit 
of live-build.
That same procedure is used for the weekly live builds (which have not 
been as thoroughly tested as the daily builds in openQA [3]).

>   - With or without an extra upload, is there a plan to ask for an unblock?
>     It seems best to ship in $codename the tools being built to build
>     $codename. (Similar example: debian-cd.)

The script to build the live images is not present in any Debian 
package, it lives only in Salsa [2].

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/merge_requests/23
[2] 
https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/test/rebuild.sh
[3] https://openqa.debian.net/group_overview/14
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