This page lists the packages we think would be useful to Mobian users. Feel free to edit it by:
- adding new nice-to-have packages
indicate you're working on a specific package (please provide the Salsa repo URL if possible) and update its status
remove packages already uploaded and accepted into Debian
Graphical environments
Plasma Mobile
The debian-pm project hosts downstream packaging, with no intention to submit/maintain those into Debian, unfortunately. These repos can however be used as a basis for actual packaging of this environment and maintained within the KDE/Qt team (although some packages, such as maliit-framework and maliit-keyboard, are maintained by the UBPorts team).
- Currently in NEW:
- Required packages to import:
plasma-settings: settings app (example package not suitable for Debian)
plasma-mobile: core Plasma Mobile package (example package not suitable for Debian)
- Partly useful:
plasma-phone-settings: config tweaks, mostly aimed at libhybris-based systems; could be stripped down and distributed as plasma-mobile-tweaks similar to the existing phosh-mobile-tweaks (example package not suitable for Debian)
Core applications: in particular, the following "essential" packages are needed for mobile phones:
Plasma Mobile Dialer: phone calls
Plasma Mobile Phonebook: contacts
Spacebar: SMS/MMS
QMLKonsole: terminal
Other third-party software
mobile-config-firefox (packaged for Mobian as firefox-esr-mobile-config)
eg25-manager (existing Mobian packaging in the mobian branch)
calamares-extensions: WIP (salsa repo), RFS sent
postmarketos-tweaks (could/should probably be renamed, see upstream issue)
- Userspace tools for Qualcomm-based devices:
pd-mapper (existing Mobian packaging)
rmtfs (existing Mobian packaging)
tqftpserv (existing Mobian packaging)
powersupply (existing Mobian packaging)
wake-mobile (existing Mobian packaging): probably not worth it as it's not expected to stay around
Headlines: GTK4/libadwaita C++ based Reddit client (BLOCKED on an outdated dependency)
Banking: GTK4/libadwaita Banking application using the FinTS standard
Markets: GTK3/libhandy application to track stock market prices etc (existings packaging)
Mobian packages
mobian-plymouth-theme (maybe rename to plymouth-theme-mobian for consistency)
meta-mobian (needs to be reworked, best to wait for the mobian-tweaks/mobile-tweaks refactor and merge)
calamares-settings-mobian (needs calamares-extensions first)
mobile-initramfs-tools: coordinate w/ Cloud team for growcrypt and resize-rootfs
mobile-usb-networking: interesting comments on the ML, heavy rework needed
not an urgent issue, it can stay in Mobian only for a while (only rdeps are <device>-support Mobian packages)
Debian packages needing action
cawbird: need to fix autopkgtest to transition to testing
https://github.com/CodedOre/NewCaw (temporary repo for Cawbird 2)
pixman: new upstream release soon? else backport merged aarch64 patches (MR already on salsa, to be updated)
tootle: debugging gtk/libadwaita errors and uploading new version
giara: debugging gtk/libadwaita errors and uploading new version
xkeyboard-config: new upstream release tagged on 2022-06-02, will drop our patched package once released in Debian and migrated to testing
f2fs-tools: new upstream release tagged on 2022-05-13, will drop our patched package once released in Debian and migrated to testing
osk-sdl: bug fixed upstream, waiting on new release
Debian native packages
Those are Debian-only packages (or packages for which Debian is upstream) we have patches for, and wish to upstream said patches:
reviewed initrd patch on the BTS, waiting on maintainer reply
config fragments patch MR open, to be posted on the BTS as well
reviewed the fdtoverlays MR, waiting on maintainer reply
need to rework the "auto-sync DTBs" patch and post it
rust-zram-generator: MR opened for updating to latest upstream version (will replace zram-tools for configuring zram swap)