Bug 251947

Summary: x11-servers/xwayland: deprecate in favor of -devel version
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Jan Beich <jbeich>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-x11 (Nobody) <x11>
Status: Closed Not Accepted    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: manu
Priority: --- Flags: manu: maintainer-feedback-
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
URL: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D28782
See Also: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264627

Description Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-12-18 22:15:40 UTC 
I'd like to take maintainership but... only when 1.21.0 is released which may never happen[1]. Given no known working[2] compositor uses this port let's avoid spreading QA too thin. For example, xf86-video-intel gave up on tracking releases years ago.

Fedora 34 plans[3] to use development snapshot(s). Once released xserver may have fewer (if any) hw/xwayland changes in 1.20.*, leaving server-1.20-branch mainly for hw/xfree86 (bare metal). So, my current proposal is to add the following:

  DEPRECATED=	   Upstream no longer maintains Xwayland on stable branches, use x11-servers/xwayland-devel instead
  EXPIRATION_DATE= 2021-04-01

[1] https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
[2] kwin_wayland isn't usable yet, see https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/wayland-plasma-5-16-1-error-no-libinput.71271/
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XwaylandStandalone
Comment 1 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-12-19 01:05:35 UTC 
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #0)
> I'd like to take maintainership but... only when 1.21.0 is released

To be accurate, I was planning to throw everything away and start form current -devel port. Having xwayland depend on xorg-server, a dumping ground for non-upstreamable patches, lots of cruft, autotools, non-declarative style and users ready to crucify you, is not fun.
Comment 3 Emmanuel Vadot freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-12-30 15:19:50 UTC 
Let's just wait a bit to see what will happened on the freedesktop proposal.
So for now let's keep things how they are.
If nothing is happening upstream before 2020Q2 we can think of splitting xwayland from the master ports and updating it to what's in git at this point.
I see no point of deprecating it now.
Comment 4 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-29 15:08:52 UTC 
Originally filed due to request by kde@ but abandoned over maintainership dispute. I wasn't very interested in a stable version, anyway.