On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 09:30:09AM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:

It's worth noting that Lubuntu is currently shipping Picom by default.
I don't think you're proposing getting rid of it, but if that ends up
being considered, I'd prefer if it could be kept around or if the
Lubuntu team could adopt maintainership of it.

Ideally we'd /only/ be shipping picom IMO, the other ones are
(effectively or actually) abandoned previous versions that we still
ship under their own name, but picom is clearly either not mature enough upstream (possible, but they fixed the 32-bit arm FTBFS upstream quickly)
or undermaintained downstream (definitely true).
And picom doesn't target the hurd at all apparently,
so maybe let it simmer for a few more years.

As for the others, is there any reason they can't just use the
existing systems to decide if they're removed or not? i.e., if there
are maintainers paying attention to them, let them stay. If they
develop release-critical bugs, they can go.

xcompmgr will probably never gain an RC bug,
and compton is also unlikely to do this.
But we should proactively try to remove them because they haven't been maintained in over/nearing a decade,
while duplicating the functionality of a package that has.

The compton->picom replacement is a hard sell for now,
but the xcompmgr->compton replacement seems trivial,
and except for the server-side compositing thing
(which I'm not sure anyone uses or would miss if it disappeared,
but that's why I'm posting here. maybe people do.
but it seems reasonable to me to interpret its removal as "not useful".), compton seems to be a direct upgrade over xcompmgr,
so I can't think of a reason to ship both in trixie.

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