bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

[Jack Hill]

Hi Guix,

wterm fails to start on the core-updates-frozen branch (commit 
ddbc3a6f4ca2605d8102aa659389300f97d715ac) in both sway and gnome wayland 
sessions:

```
$ wterm
wl_registry@2: error 0: invalid interface for global 11: have xdg_wm_base, wanted zxdg_shell_v6
# wayland_create_context: No wl_drm global
# wayland_create_context: No wl_shm global
# wld_wayland_create_context: Could not initialize any of the specified implementations
Can't create wayland context
```

However, wterm seems to be unmaintained upstream [0], so maybe this is not 
somethint that we want to fix in Guix.

[0] https://github.com/majestrate/wterm/issues/24

Best,
Jack

bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

[Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> wterm fails to start on the core-updates-frozen branch (commit
> ddbc3a6f4ca2605d8102aa659389300f97d715ac) in both sway and gnome wayland
> sessions:
>
> ```
> $ wterm
> wl_registry@2: error 0: invalid interface for global 11: have xdg_wm_base, wanted zxdg_shell_v6
> # wayland_create_context: No wl_drm global
> # wayland_create_context: No wl_shm global
> # wld_wayland_create_context: Could not initialize any of the specified implementations
> Can't create wayland context
> ```
>
> However, wterm seems to be unmaintained upstream [0], so maybe this is not
> somethint that we want to fix in Guix.

I vote that we remove wterm from guix.  It is still unmaintained at the
github link below.  And it doesn't ever run properly.


> [0] https://github.com/majestrate/wterm/issues/24
>
> Best,
> Jack

bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

[paren--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

On Fri Aug 5, 2022 at 2:37 AM BST, Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> I vote that we remove wterm from guix.  It is still unmaintained at the
> github link below.  And it doesn't ever run properly.
Perhaps we could mark it as deprecated and point to Foot or WLTerm instead.

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bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

This sounds like the right thing to do.

Either of you feel like practicing a 'simple deprecation'?  ;-)

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

[paren--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

On Sat Aug 6, 2022 at 2:38 AM BST, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Either of you feel like practicing a 'simple deprecation'?  ;-)
Done at #57014 :)

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bug#52029: wterm fails to start on core-updates-frozen

[Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

"(" <paren@disroot.org> writes:

> On Sat Aug 6, 2022 at 2:38 AM BST, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>> Either of you feel like practicing a 'simple deprecation'?  ;-)
> Done at #57014 :)
>

I am going to try to close this bug report.  All further bug reports
should look at 57014.  If I cannot close the bug report.  Will someone
else please close this bug?

Thanks,
Joshua

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