jitsi/jibri

Debian package depends on xserver-xorg-input-void, removed in bullseye

stefanor opened this issue · 3 comments

stefanor commented

Description

The jibri debian package depends on xserver-xorg-input-void. This was removed from Debian in bullseye.
Not sure if it is strictly needed?

Current behavior

The jibri Debian package fails to install on bullseye, due to a dependency error.

Expected Behavior

The jibri Debian package should install.

Possible Solution

Drop the dependency on xserver-xorg-input-void if not necessary?

Steps to reproduce

Spin up a Debian bullseye VM / container, add the https://download.jitsi.org APT repo (deb https://download.jitsi.org stable/), and attempt to apt install jibri

Environment details

Debian 11 (bullseye)

felbinger commented

I've got the same issue, @stefanor did you find a solution to fix the problem yourself?

emrahcom commented

It seems that xserver-xorg-input-void is only needed for xorg-xserver which is older than version 1.4. The latest xorg-server-1.13 released on 2013-04-17 (xorg-server-1.13.4.tar.bz2).

See xorg-server releases

According to man void

void is an dummy/null Xorg input driver... It's purpose is to allow X servers
pre version 1.4 to operate without a core pointer and/or core keyboard.

xserver-xorg-core version according to distributions

  • Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus has xserver-xorg-core 1.18.4
  • Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver has xserver-xorg-core 1.19.6
  • Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa has xserver-xorg-core 1.20.11
  • Debian 10 Buster has xserver-xorg-core 1.20.4
  • Debian 11 Bullseye has xserver-xorg-core 1.20.11

I tested jibri without xserver-xorg-input-void and it seems working.

After the following commands I can record the meeting session without any problems.

dpkg -P --force-depends xserver-xorg-input-void
systemctl stop jibri-xorg.service
systemctl start jibri.service
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saghul commented

Fixed in #440