Bug#851639: alacritty packaging status

[James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:37:26PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 09:09:52AM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> > Control: owner -1 !
> > Control: retitle -1 ITP: alacritty -- A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
> > 
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 06:42:53AM +0000, Jeremy A. wrote:
> > > I noticed that someone is publishing DEB packages for this on Github, is 
> > > there any way that could help get this into the official repositories?
> > > https://github.com/barnumbirr/alacritty-debian
> > 
> > I've started working on getting dependencies updated/packaged, but it's
> > too late in this release cycle to get everything done.  Effort is better
> > spent right now trying to ensure we have a quick release.
> > 
> > I'll continue this once Bullseye is released.
> 
> alacritty-terminal, alacritty-config-derive, and vte have been
> updated/packaged.  Starting to work through the rest of alacritty's
> direct dependencies.

Remaining dependencies that need to be packaged:

glutin → winit → smithay-client-toolkit → calloop
      ⤷ glutin_glx_sys

Hopefully will be able to make it through this in the next few weeks
(based on NEW speed).

Cheers,
-- 
James
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