Debian Patches

Status for mutter/48~beta-7

Patch Description Author Forwarded Bugs Origin Last update
tools-gdctl-Make-argcomplete-optional.patch tools/gdctl: Make argcomplete optional
While having automatic completions is a very nice feature of gdctl (I
had suggested to use it too :)), it's not something that distros may
have by default and in particular it's not a package in main in ubuntu.

So, make the code less restrictive on completions, since completions is
not a core functionality of the tool and it can definitely work without
them.		 =?utf-8?b?Ik1hcmNvIFRyZXZpc2FuIChUcmV2acOxbyki?= <mail@3v1n0.net> no https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4279 2025-02-15
tests-Fall-back-if-there-s-no-seat_id-for-the-current-ses.patch tests: Fall back if there's no seat_id for the current session_id
Such as in an ssh login.		 Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@canonical.com> yes 2025-02-25
tests-Vary-the-gdctl-path-used-for-installed-tests.patch tests: Vary the gdctl path used for installed tests
So they don't rely on the source tree.		 Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@canonical.com> yes 2025-02-28
workarounds/tests-Skip-thread-priority-test.patch tests: Skip thread priority test
This test added to 45 fails on Ubuntu's armhf builders

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/45~beta.1-0ubuntu1/+latestbuild/armhf

and on Debian's i386

https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=mutter&arch=i386

Architecture defines are at
https://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo		 =?utf-8?q?Jeremy_B=C3=ADcha?= <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> no 2023-08-21
workarounds/place-Always-center-initial-setup.patch place: Always center initial-setup =?utf-8?q?Florian_M=C3=BCllner?= <fmuellner@gnome.org> not-needed https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mutter/blob/main/f/0001-place-Always-center-initial-setup-fedora-welcome.patch 2022-12-02
workarounds/Mark-several-additional-tests-as-flaky.patch Mark several additional tests as flaky
Most of these have never been reliable on Debian buildds, especially
on ARM, so having them fail is not a regression. They usually succeed
after a few retries, but that's time-consuming and unsuitable to be a
QA gate.

The input-capture test frequently hangs until it times out, so put that
one in a separate suite so that we don't need to run it at all.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> no 2023-12-13
workarounds/tests-Install-stacking-tests-into-a-subdirectory.patch tests: Install stacking tests into a subdirectory
These are not reliable enough on ci.debian.net to be used as a QA gate.		 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> not-needed debian 2024-09-07
Support-Dynamic-triple-double-buffering.patch Support Dynamic triple/double buffering
Use triple buffering if and when the previous frame is running late.
This means the next frame will be dispatched on time instead of also starting
late.

It also triggers a GPU clock boost if deemed necessary by the driver.
Although frequency scaling is not required to get a performance gain here
because even a fixed frequency GPU will benefit from not over-sleeping anymore.
If the previous frame is not running late then we stick to double buffering so
there's no latency penalty when the system is able to maintain full frame rate.

Formatted for Debian (as of 48) with:
git remote add community-ubuntu git@ssh.gitlab.gnome.org:Community/Ubuntu/mutter.git
git fetch community-ubuntu
git merge --squash -e community-ubuntu/triple-buffering-v4-48
And then git commit but using all this as the header instead of what
git suggests. Also add Gbp-Pq: Topic debian		 Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@canonical.com> yes upstream 2024-10-31
tests-cursor-Embed-a-copy-of-the-Adwaita-cursor-theme.patch tests/cursor: Embed a copy of the Adwaita cursor theme
As a follow-up to 87cc6633a5, embed a partial copy of the Adwaita cursor theme
and point to it with XCURSOR_PATH to make the test completely independent
from the installed cursor themes.

Indeed, adwaita-icon-theme changed ever so slightly in version 48 so the
ref tests started failing when the new version was installed.

This is a copy of adwaita-icon-theme 47, which is what was used to generate
the ref images.		 Alessandro Astone <alessandro.astone@canonical.com> yes 2025-02-06
workarounds/tests-Mark-view-verification-tests-as-incomplete-in-big-e.patch tests: Mark view-verification tests as incomplete in big-endian archs

Saved pixmaps are invalid in big-endian architectures, so let's disable
the tests for now, checking only the basic metadata but not comparing
the contents.		 =?utf-8?b?Ik1hcmNvIFRyZXZpc2FuIChUcmV2acOxbyki?= <mail@3v1n0.net> yes upstream 2021-06-15
debian/tests-Do-not-run-screencast-tests.patch tests: Do not run screencast tests
They require to have a full running pipewire (that requires a system
dbus daemon) so, we can't easily get one up and running while building.

So let's disable this for now		 =?utf-8?b?Ik1hcmNvIFRyZXZpc2FuIChUcmV2acOxbyki?= <mail@3v1n0.net> no 2021-05-20
debian/tests-Use-env-in-bash-scripts-shebang.patch tests: Use env in bash scripts shebang
Bash can be in both /usr/bin/bash or /bin/bash (or elsewhere!) depending on
the distro, so let's be generic using env to figure it out.

This comes from a packaging lintian error we get:

E: mutter-16-tests: wrong-path-for-interpreter /usr/bin/bash != /bin/bash
[usr/share/mutter-16/tests/socket-launch.sh]		 =?utf-8?b?Ik1hcmNvIFRyZXZpc2FuIChUcmV2acOxbyki?= <mail@3v1n0.net> no https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4288 2025-02-18
workarounds/tests-skip-monitor-width-size-check-as-it-may-lead-to-une.patch tests: skip monitor width size check as it may lead to unexpected failure

This seems to be broken only on autopkg-tests.		 =?utf-8?b?Ik1hcmNvIFRyZXZpc2FuIChUcmV2acOxbyki?= <mail@3v1n0.net> not-needed 2022-03-14

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