bug#51900: [core-updates-frozen] xorg-server-xwayland broken

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Guillaume!

Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Hi Guillaume,
>>
>> Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>>> According to [1], since 21.1 series of Xorg, XWayland is packaged
>>> separately. The attached patch replaces xorg-xserver-xwayland by the
>>> xwayland package.
>>>
>>> However it looks like it's not working so far, the tests fail with:
>>>
>>> XKB: Failed to compile keymap
>>> Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup 
>>> of xkeyboard-config.
>>> (EE) 
>>> Fatal server error:
>>> (EE) Failed to activate virtual core keyboard: 2(EE)
>>>
>>> I tried adding the same keyboard-related parameters as the ones in
>>> xorg-server (xbk_dir and xkb_bin_dir), but it doesn't seem to
>>> make a difference.
>>>
>>> Does someone have an idea?
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2021-October/060799.html
>>
>> Perhaps it was libinput?  I'm carrying this patch set locally, I guess I
>> should have shared it earlier, I was attempting to fix the Mutter test
>> suite on top of it.  Could you try it?  It rebuilds lots of stuff though
>> I'm afraid.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> (the patch series will come shortly via git-send)
>
> It looks like your patches are working. I was able to build
> xorg-server-xwayland (maybe it could be renamed xwayland), and also
> weston (which has a test using xwayland).

I thought so about xwayland, but since it provides a xorg-server
variant, I think we may just leave it at xorg-server-xwayland (like it
is on Fedora).

Thank you, I've pushed all but my WIP mutter (which should work if we
disable the test suite as it was).

Thanks,

Maxim