On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:07, Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey,
I am happy to help with packaging this. Feel free to put me in Uploaders.
Just a couple of quick thoughts:
The package isn't published on crates.io. How do we solve that in
debcargo-config? I guess since it'll be vendored you'll most likely create its
own repo and not use debcargo-conf?
Yes, that will be vendored to debian/missing-sources.
I looked at cargo debstatus for this package; here's a short summary:
```
cargo debstatus --all-features --no-dev-dependencies
pwvucontrol v0.5.3 (in workspace, /home/obbardc/projects/git/pwvucontrol)
🔴 ├── wireplumber v0.2.0
(git+https://github.com/saivert/wireplumber.rs.git?branch=wp-0.5-glib-0.21-pipewire-0.9#04fbbc6ea157cdd7061f6a5f2a6b22e102fccbcc)
├── anyhow v1.0.103 (in debian)
├── formatx v0.2.4 (in debian)
├── futures v0.3.32 (in debian)
├── gettext-rs v0.7.7 (in debian)
🔽 ├── glib v0.21.5 (newer, 0.22.7 in debian)
🔽 ├── gtk4 v0.10.3 (newer, 0.11.3 in debian)
🔴 ├── imbl v3.0.0
🔽 ├── libadwaita v0.8.1 (newer, 0.9.1 in debian)
├── log v0.4.33 (0.4.32 in debian)
└── pipewire v0.9.2 (in debian)
```
I tried patching out the gnome deps to latest in Debian; but it failed to build
with ~88 errors. I didn't go any further.
Yeah that does seem not easily fixable.
For the crate to build, I needed these B-d:
blueprint-compiler
libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev
libgtk-4-dev
libadwaita-1-dev
libpipewire-0.3-dev
libwireplumber-0.5-dev
Since upstream uses meson, I had to go the long way around to generate the
resources etc:
meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir dev-schema
meson compile -C builddir blueprints
meson compile -C builddir resources_gresource
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="$PWD/builddir/data" \
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory \
PWVUCONTROL_RESOURCEDIR="$PWD/builddir/data/resources" \
cargo run
That should happen automatically with meson build. Given upstream is
still on gtk-rs 0.10 I am considering to keep this shelved for now.
I filed https://github.com/saivert/pwvucontrol/issues/117.
The FFI bindings are not that trivial to update, and I do not want to
vendor all of gtk-rs; just the wireplumber crate.
best,
--
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Developer -- KiCad Contributor
GPG: ECBEDBB607B9B2BE
