libdisplay-info-0.3.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[martyj19]

Weston reports that it needs libdisplay-info < 0.3.0 and fails configure. (I know Weston is not in the book.)

[Xi Ruoyao]

Weston is not a BLFS package. And I guess we can just sed away the (stupid IMO) version constraint for it (I did it for some old Weston version requiring libdisplay-info < 0.2.0 when we updated to 0.2.0).

[zeckma]

While Weston is not a BLFS package, there will be users who will try to install packages outside of BLFS with the current package set, and will be stuck on what to do to accomodate. I don't know the full scale of capping the max version of libdisplay-info yet, but will go through a set of Wayland compositors and see how many packages fail to configure/build as a result. If most of them fail, I think we should nevertheless be careful of updating this package, and wait for more adoption instead of jumping the gun.

[Douglas R. Reno]

Weston is also downloaded during the testing process for Xwayland if I remember correctly (or rather, it is mentioned as being required)

[Xi Ruoyao]

Replying to zeckma:

While Weston is not a BLFS package, there will be users who will try to install packages outside of BLFS with the current package set, and will be stuck on what to do to accomodate. I don't know the full scale of capping the max version of libdisplay-info yet, but will go through a set of Wayland compositors and see how many packages fail to configure/build as a result. If most of them fail, I think we should nevertheless be careful of updating this package, and wait for more adoption instead of jumping the gun.

IMO we shouldn't be considering non-BLFS packages or we'd start to lock the version of a lot of packages. We deliberately keep the list of BLFS packages shorter than other distros to reduce the maintenance burden, and taking non-BLFS packages into account will defeat that.

[martyj19]

Patching out the version check in libweston/backend-drm/meson.build allows Weston to build successfully with 0.3.0 and a quick test shows no problems with running Weston over DRM.

I take no position on what the book editors should do. I will however continue to report whatever I find whether or not the package is in scope of BLFS on the theory that it may help others who run BLFS, who may be running the package in question.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Per ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/merge_requests/1815:

"There are no breaking changes for the high-level API that Weston uses."

Thus we can just remove the version constraint.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

589c9d33be Update to libdisplay-info-0.3.0.
3b7642b98a Update to protobuf-32.0.