* Package name    : kmscon
  Version         : 8+40
  Upstream Author : Aetf <aetf@unlimitedcodeworks.xyz>
* URL             : https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting

kmscon is a system console for linux. It does not depend on any
graphics-server on your system (like X.org), but instead provides
a raw console layer that can  be used independently.
It can replace the linux kernel console entirely but was designed to
work well side-by-side, too.
Even though initially targeted at providing internationalization to
the system-console, it has grown into a fully modularized console
layer including features like multi-head support, internationalized
font rendering, XKB-compatible keyboard handling,
hardware-accelerated graphics access and more.

I have used this package since Linux dropped scrollback support
from the kernel in 2020 [1]. The original upstream [2] has been
dead since 2014, but Aetf has picked up development.

Kmscon depends on a newer, forked version of libtsm. I'll file
a separate bug to address that.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-Drops-Soft-Scrollback
[2]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/

Victor Westerhuis left as an exercise for the reader:

i've also forked this, and have been working on it a bit over
the past year:

https://github.com/dankamongmen/kmscon

if the other fork is more active, i'm happy to fold my changes
into it, but they definitely ought go in there. the most
important thing i recall doing was fixing the cursor location
report to use the proper order for coordinates.

indeed, the cursor location report fix is only on a branch. i'll
go ahead and submit it to this other fork, and rebase mine off
of theirs. thank you likewise for bringing this to my attention!
i'm glad to see kmscon getting some love.

i'm the maintainer and upstream author of Notcurses, and kmscon
is very much a target of mine. if you'd like to integrate any
Notcurses stuff into your testing, just hit me up; i'd be happy
to help!

also, there is a kmscon repo under the auspices of the
freedesktop.org organization. i talked to the original author
about removing that if he wasn't going to be taking the project
forward, but it didn't go anywhere. if someone's really picking
kmscon up, they might want to go talk to the fdo people.

ahh, rereading your original ITP, i see you know all about the
fdo situation. good deal =]. i just killed my fork, and am going
to submit a PR to Aetf's fork.

On 05/02/2022 13:05, nick black wrote:
 > indeed, the cursor location report fix is only on a branch. i'll
 > go ahead and submit it to this other fork, and rebase mine off
 > of theirs. thank you likewise for bringing this to my attention!
 > i'm glad to see kmscon getting some love.

That would be great. I'd like to ask Aetf for a versioned release as
well, but first I'd like to get composing working. There's an open issue
for that and I independently had a patch for that as well, so I'll see
if I can get that upstreamed.

 > i'm the maintainer and upstream author of Notcurses, and kmscon
 > is very much a target of mine. if you'd like to integrate any
 > Notcurses stuff into your testing, just hit me up; i'd be happy
 > to help!

I would like something a bit more formal to test kmscon. So far I've
just been testing out different modes and see if aptitude draws
everything correctly, but that's hardly a decent compliance test.

On 05/02/2022 13:08, nick black wrote:
 > also, there is a kmscon repo under the auspices of the
 > freedesktop.org organization. i talked to the original author
 > about removing that if he wasn't going to be taking the project
 > forward, but it didn't go anywhere. if someone's really picking
 > kmscon up, they might want to go talk to the fdo people.

On 05/02/2022 13:11, nick black wrote:
 > ahh, rereading your original ITP, i see you know all about the
 > fdo situation. good deal =]. i just killed my fork, and am going
 > to submit a PR to Aetf's fork.

It would be great if it could be moved back under FDO auspices, but I
haven't tried to contact them, yet. Going by your experiences that might
not be worth the effort then.

Thanks for bringing your fork to my attention. I can see you have an
open issue for the cursor location coordinates, but I don't see any
commits related to that in the history of the master branch.

The two fixes I can see, for the removal of SIGUNUSED and adding an
include for sys/sysmacros.h have also been implemented in Aetf's branch.

Aetf's fork has some additional functionality, so I would prefer to use
that. However, in the course of packaging kmscon I've also opened some
PRs on Github and they've responded very quickly. If you have a fix, I'm
sure they'll happily take it as well.

I have retracted the current version of kmscon I had uploaded at
mentors.debian.net to ask the upstream maintainer for a new release
(https://github.com/Aetf/kmscon/issues/42), so I can prepare a proper
release for Debian.

A new version of libtsm has just been accepted into the archive, closing
the blocking bug #1004921, so there should be no further blocks once I
get a new version of kmscon ready.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kmscon, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1004919@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is> (supplier of updated kmscon package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:43:25 +0200
Source: kmscon
Binary: kmscon kmscon-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 9.0.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
Changed-By: Victor Westerhuis <victor@westerhu.is>
Description:
 kmscon     - Simple terminal emulator based on Kernel Mode Setting
Closes: 1004919
Changes:
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 .
   * Initial release (Closes: #1004919)
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