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** Changed in: libhandy (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Fix Released
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Title:
[MIR] libhandy
Status in libhandy package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Availability
============
Built for all supported architectures. In sync with Debian.
Rationale
=========
libhandy is an extension of GTK3 to allow for so-called responsive design or
reactive layout. libhandy is developed by Purism which aims to produce a phone
running a complete free software stack. Purism wants to enable a form of GNOME
to run on the phone as an option (KDE Plasma and even Ubuntu Touch may be
available later too).
Ubuntu 19.04's gnome-control-center 3.31.90 includes an embedded copy
of libhandy. As we do with other libraries, it would be nice to
transition to a shared library instead. The Ubuntu Desktop team
believes it is reasonable to use the embedded copy for 19.04 so there
isn't urgency for this MIR.
Besides gnome-control-center, the universe apps epiphany, gnome-
contacts and gnome-games-app alse use libhandy. I expect more Ubuntu
main apps will use libhandy in the future.
Security
========
No known security issues
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libhandy
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libhandy/+cve
Quality assurance
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- Ubuntu Desktop bugs needs to be subscribed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libhandy
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libhandy
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/issues
There is an autopkgtest passing on all architectures to test C
compiling of a minimal libhandy app.
The upstream test suite is run during the build using dh_auto_test.
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/libh/libhandy
https://ci.debian.net/packages/libh/libhandy/
Dependencies
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All dependencies for the library are in main.
We do not want the -dev package promoted to main because it depends on
glade which the Ubuntu Desktop Team doesn't want to support in main at
this time.
glade used to be in main until we allowed universe Build-Depends
shortly before Ubuntu 16.04 LTS's release.
glade is old enough that it never had a MIR in Launchpad.
libhandy does provide a build option for the Glade catalog feature. It
feels like it would be really useful to developers to have libhandy
support in the Glade app (or in GNOME Builder which now offers Glade
editing.) Glade is a GUI tool for building user interfaces for GTK
apps (instead of needing to code them manually with XML or your
favorite programming language).
Standards compliance
====================
4.1.3, debhelper compat 12, simple dh7 style rules
Maintenance
===========
Maintained in Debian by one of the Purism libhadny developers
https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team/libhandy/tree/debian/sid
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy
Other Info
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At a recent GTK hackfest, moving some of libhandy's functionality into GTK4
was discussed. It's trickier to do that with GTK3 since GTK3 is supposed to be
in stable mode since 2016.
https://blog.gtk.org/2019/02/08/report-from-the-gtk-hackfest-in-
brussels/
The library is under heavy development:
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/wikis/home
https://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libhandy/doc/
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