751979 – x11-terms/alacritty-0.5.0: stabilization

Bug 751979 - x11-terms/alacritty-0.5.0: stabilization

Summary: x11-terms/alacritty-0.5.0: stabilization

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Stabilization (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Georgy Yakovlev

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Keywords:	CC-ARCHES, STABLEREQ

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Reported:	2020-10-31 03:04 UTC by Georgy Yakovlev
Modified:	2020-10-31 05:57 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Package list:	x11-terms/alacritty-0.5.0 amd64 arm64 ppc64
Runtime testing required:	---

Flags:	nattka: sanity-check+

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Description Georgy Yakovlev archtester

2020-10-31 03:04:23 UTC

Hi, let's stabilize.

for ppc64 please use le tester.

Comment 1 Kirill Chibisov 2020-10-31 05:30:30 UTC

I'm not sure if that matters, but alacritty 0.5.0 happened to have some weird bugs like [1], [2], and [3], and given that it's a default terminal on certain popular compositors like (sway, wayfire), it could downgrade the user experience. As the one from upstream side, I can say that there will be 0.6.0 version relatively soon(maybe under month), and the 0.5.0 could be dropped entirely without ever being stable, keeping 0.4.3 as stable for the time being.

Note, I can provide patches for all 3 issues I've mentioned, but I'm not sure if patching is better than waiting for a bit.

[1] - https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4139
[2] - https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4109
[3] - https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/4085 (not that critical)

Comment 2 Georgy Yakovlev archtester

2020-10-31 05:57:04 UTC

thanks for feedback! that's exactly why I added you to CC.

closing for now, let's see what happens next.

I just decided to file stablereq based on time, no other reason.

fat NO to bad user experience.