* Package name : decibels Version : 48.0 Upstream Contact: The GNOME Project (https://gnome.org) * URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/decibels/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: TypeScript Description : Audio player for GNOME An audio player that just plays audio files. It doesn't require an organized music library and won't overload you with tons of functionality. . Audio Player still offers advanced features such as: . * An elegant waveform of the track * Adjustable playback speed * Easy seek controls * Playing multiple files at the same time Part of the packaging job is done on FOSSASIA 2025, as attendees told me that Decibels is still yet not in Debian. The current packaging job happens in https://salsa.debian.org/billchenchina/decibels, but I would happy to move this package to team packaging.
Hi Tianyu Chen Thanks for your initiative in packaging Decibels in Debian. Since Decibels has been accepted by the Gnome Project to integrate it's software suite, perhaps it could be maintained by the Debian Gnome Team. I CCed them on this email thread. Cheers---------------------------- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦ Felipe Maia ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ Debian Contributor ⠈⠳⣄
Hi Felipe! Felipe Maia <felipegmaia@protonmail.com> 于2025年3月21日周五 11:30写道： Would be happy to maintain it in the Gnome Team! Best Regards, Tianyu Chen
This message is intended to fix (as much as possible) the mistake I've made sending the previous email to the wrong addresses. If you would like to write to this thread, and continue the conversation, don't answer this message. Instead, answer one of the other messages of the thread and choose the right destinations, which don't include <submit@bugs.debian.org> and <owner@bugs.debian.org>. BEFORE (WRONG) To: billchenchina2001@gmail.com CC: submit@bugs.debian.org, owner@bugs.debian.org, debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org NOW (RIGHT) CC: 1100886@bugs.debian.org, debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org, billchenchina2001@gmail.com Sorry for the inconvenience. Felipe Maia
Hi and welcome! Thank you for helping to make Debian better. Your version didn't build for me. I got errors like [20/21] /usr/bin/tsc --project ../tsconfig.json --outDir src FAILED: src/application.js src/drag-overlay.js src/empty.js src/error.js src/header.js src/main.js src/mpris.js src/playback-rate-button.js src/player.js src/stream.js src/volume-button.js src/waveform.js src/window.js /usr/bin/tsc --project ../tsconfig.json --outDir src ../src/application.ts(26,12): error TS2339: Property 'quit' does not exist on type 'Application'. ../src/application.ts(29,10): error TS2339: Property 'add_action' does not exist on type 'Application'. I got the same kind of errors with 48.0, the latest stable release, so I went ahead and imported 48.0 into https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/decibels using the branch configuration we generally use on the Debian GNOME team. I kept your minimal debian/ packaging. Were you able to get Decibels to build? What version of Debian were you using? The Debian GNOME team has no experience with TypeScript apps so I expect that it will take several months before the work is finished and this app is available in Debian Unstable. We might need to force push to the Salsa repo later depending on what changes we need to make, but this gives us a place to start. 1. You can read more about the team workflow at https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/Git . I apologize that the docs are incomplete. 2. I recommend copying debian/watch from another Debian GNOME project like https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-text-editor 3. We also need a debian/copyright file 4. debian/control is missing a lot of fields that we need Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
Hi Jeremy! I'm on Debian unstable. The problem is caused by the low node-typescript version. I managed to successfully build the gnome-team/decibels version with a local-packaged node-typescript_5.8.2+ds1_0local1.(Currently Debian only has 4.9.5 in sid and 5.0.4 in exp) Thank you! I'll work on this later.
I noticed that the Fedora package specified a fairly high version number for their equivalent of node-typescript. Thank you for confirming. Could you ask the Debian node-typescript maintainers if they could upload a newer version to Experimental? Probably the most difficult part of packaging Decibels will be how to handle the vendored gi-types. Based on our experience with Rust, we may need to package the generator. Either the archived one that Decibels is currently using https://github.com/gjsify/gi.ts or the new one that Decibels isn't using yet https://github.com/gjsify/ts-for-gir The switch is mentioned at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/decibels/-/merge_requests/128 This means that the first GNOME Typescript app will be the most difficult to package. After that, the others should be much easier. Figuring out how to handle the generator and its output is the part that I expect to take a long time. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 3:36 AM Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> wrote: Yes, will do. Probably the most difficult part of packaging Decibels will be how to Actually we don't need to vendor gi-types anymore if we use the upstream tarball from https://download.gnome.org/sources/decibels/48/decibels-48.0.tar.xz If not using the tarball, pinning gi-types @ dbbaa052 also builds successfully from my side. Either the archived one that Decibels is currently using
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 3:36 AM Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> wrote: Ah, sorry I think I missed your point in my previous message. Do you mean we should exclude the gi-types directory and package generate the types in build stage and using a generator you mentioned? Do I get you right? Either the archived one that Decibels is currently using
Yes, based on our experience with packaging the first GNOME Rust apps, we suspect that the ftpmasters may reject using the vendored gi-types for our build. If so, we will likely go one step further and exclude that directory from our tarballs. However, you don't need to worry about how that exclusion works now, but it's why I said we may end up force-pushing to the repo later. In order for new software to get into Debian, it must go through the NEW queue [See https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html ] and be accepted by ftpmasters from there. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 3:59 AM Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> wrote: Understood. I'll take a look at the generators later. Thank you for your explanation! Thank you,
The generator is complicated and I would not recommend working on this to someone who is new to Debian packaging. But if you are really interested in some technical details… The packaged Rust generator is at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gir-rust-code-generator An example of how it is used is with https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-glib . The Debian Rust team uses a monorepo with generated debian/ files so I recommend clicking the "browse source code" link there instead of using the VCS link. And then you can browse to the debian/rules file. The GNOME Typescript generator build may look very different but that's the closest thing we have in concept to what we're doing. We may end up with multiple binary packages looking something like what exists for https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gtk-d or maybe we group it all together in one or a few binary packages like is done for https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vala Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
I no longer have interest in this package. Hopefully someone from Debian Gnome Team would package this. Best regards, Tianyu Chen