On 25/02/26 12:39 pm, [email protected] wrote: >> Do you have debian packaging experience - or are at least familiar? If not, >> I am unsure if co-maintenance would be a lot of help for me. > > I do not have any packaging experience unfortunately. I'm familiar with it as > in read about it and watched some YT videos.
As you may have noticed, this is a bit of a complicated package, so I'd recommend trying to maintain something simple first. But if you still feel like taking up the challenge and are up for doing upstream updates, testing, fixing code downstream and sending them upstream (which has been quite frequent lately), feel free to add yourself as one of the uploaders. >> But, at least so we start somewhere, could you check if my fix[1] for bug >> report #1124472 works? >> The full context is at the same bug report. If you could confirm this to be >> working, that'd be quite helpful for me. >> (Note that this is on stable with the version of the same in stable). > > Let me give you a brief summary of what I tried on fresh install of Debian > 13 Cinnamon on a VM. I've followed the guide in [1] > ... > - dquilt new fixup-policykit-depends-in-a-better-way.patch > - dquilt add debian/control > - Update debian/control with whats provided in the patch There's actually no need to add files inside debian directory to quilt patches. These can be directly modified. > I've tried it but it seems to me that apt isn't pulling the dependencies > correctly still. It actually does and I realized this is a bug even in unstable. Cinnamon provides "polkit-1-auth-agent" virtual package which is listed there. I've added a patch and uploaded to stable, unstable and backports. Changes are in the salsa repository - debian/sid, debian/trixie-pu, debian/trixie-backports branches respectively. If you could still build the package from trixie-pu branch and confirm that it fixed the issue (I know it does, but still), that'd be cool.
