[SOLVED] Netsurf is old

levi · 2020-06-11 21:18:33

On 24th May Netsuft 3.10 was released for systems including GTK. Arch32 is currently stuck on version 3.9-2.1, and I can't find any record of 3.10 being built either with or without errors. I note the upstream arch64 project is stuck on 3.9 also.

Netsurf development seems to happen in a web accessible git instance (or at least that's where individual contributors work gets pooled to). I'm not sure how we're meant to keep track of new releases coming out. There's a news page that announces new drops, but there's no RSS interface to that that I can find, and other than that you could perhaps track the creation of new tags either from a clone of the source, or that web interface linked at the head of this paragraph. I personally became aware of it because it was posted to some RISC OS feeds I track for old times sake about a week after the tag was published.

I'm happy to notify you either by making a post here or maybe I should connect to IRC in future, but I can imagine it'd be better if it happened more or less automatically (and maybe this is more of an issue for the arch64 project, which I don't current have an account for). What's the best way to go to get this updated for now and secondarily for the forthcoming?

Last edited by levi (2020-06-12 06:25:58)

deep42thought · 2020-06-12 06:22:20

We try to stick as close as possible to archlinux for x86_64. This also means, we will not (normally) build newer versions than upstream arch.
The right thing to do, is therefor to tag the package as out-of-date upstream: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … 4/netsurf/
As you can see, someone did this already a few weeks ago.

(As you know, there can be no guarantee, how quickly we follow the upstream version change.)

regards,
deep42thought

levi · 2020-06-12 06:25:23

Thanks, that looks good, and whoever it was was pretty prompt at noticing it was out of date on arch64. I'm happy to wait; as far as I know this doesn't address any security worries.

abaumann · 2020-06-13 08:22:38

You can also go with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netsurf-git if you insist on "raw, bleedy software". ;-)

levi · 2020-07-10 01:23:19

FWIW, this was finally updated by arch upstream three days ago. It's still on 3.9 here meanwhile libhubbub and libnsutils upgrades have been released which are dependent by version by netsurf (at least in the repository package). This is preventing me from upgrading at present.

Edit: There may have been a failed build yesterday, as that's the listed commit date on the build server, and it claims it didn't attempt to compile anything if I'm reading the table correctly.

Last edited by levi (2020-07-10 01:26:42)

abaumann · 2020-07-10 06:41:23

Yep, I broke netsurf with a version pinning fix for libnsutils.
I'll trigger a rebuild..

abaumann · 2020-07-10 09:14:35

netsurf 3.10 is in stable.

levi · 2020-07-10 21:47:25

Thanks, that's freed up my dependency blocker. I did get a few dependency warnings still though:

:: xorg-fonts-alias-misc and xorg-fonts-alias are in conflict. Remove xorg-fonts-alias? [y/N] y
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: mesa will be installed before its libglvnd dependency

But as you can see, I agreed to the former, and it went through okay. I guess xorg-fonts-alias is an old mega package that has since been split.

And now the upgrade is complete, netsurf runs well, thanks!

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