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commit aec71b3d0f24f5bca642fbd6ccff3286a14c0a09
Author: Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me>
Date: Mon Oct 12 02:51:29 2026 +0200
Document why dh_auto_test is overridden
Finding from the ftp-master checklist, which requires every skipped test to be
justified in writing. The crate ships no tests at all: no tests/ directory, no
#[test], no [[test]] target and no dev-dependencies, so cargo test would only
recompile the binary in test mode for nothing.
commit 4f31d3548073cb3d16ab15acc23cc6a2c035704d
Author: Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me>
Date: Thu Oct 8 20:23:16 2026 +0200
New upstream release 1.2.2+ds
Drop 0003-add-man-page and 0004-fix-window-state-typo, both upstream since
1.2.1. Drop the LC_NUMERIC override from the wrapper, since upstream now
calls setlocale() itself before creating the mpv handle.
Refresh the crate pins: Debian has caught up with gtk4, gdk4-wayland,
libadwaita and clap, so only seven crates still need loosening.
Add 0003-use-crates-io-libmpv2. Upstream moved that dependency to a git fork
of 5.0.3, which cannot be satisfied from the Debian registry, so Build-Depends
now requires librust-libmpv2-dev (>= 5.0.3-2), the revision carrying the three
fixes the fork exists for.
commit 040d5487d904fd2764f3ff68ff80c57a3cc993c3
Merge: 2113121 af91a4d
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Oct 8 20:06:18 2026 +0200
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/1.2.2+ds'
Update to upstream version '1.2.2+ds'
with Debian dir ef3c1b32027b588869526c6bf58cbf430c35cfec
commit 2113121ad92fcdf8308e6aff62c8fe9980470673
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Sep 25 18:19:25 2026 +0200
man page: fix three unverified details
Reviewing the page against the source turned up three things that were
written without checking:
- AUTHOR carried support@stremio.com, an address that appears nowhere in
upstream's tree and that I had not verified. Removed, and added a
REPORTING BUGS section pointing at the issue tracker upstream's metainfo
already declares.
- FILES claimed ~/.local/share/com.stremio.Stremio/. config.rs sets
DATA_DIR = "stremio", so it is ~/.local/share/stremio/.
- The description said the application expects a running streaming server,
when server.rs starts one itself by running node on $SERVER_PATH.
Documented that variable in a new ENVIRONMENT section, noting it is
required.
Same correction pushed to the upstream PR (Stremio/stremio-linux-shell#134).
Renders with no roff warnings. Not a new revision: this should ride the next
upload rather than justify one on its own.
commit 6ecf9ebafe05763f36addea204ec55577330783d
Author: Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 19 17:23:15 2026 +0200
Address further lintian findings from Simon's review
- debian/control: add Built-Using/Static-Built-Using (real requirement
for Rust binaries, per wiki.debian.org/Gnome/Rust_Packaging), drop
redundant Priority: optional
- debian/rules: remap the build path out of RUSTFLAGS (mirrors what
dpkg-buildflags already does for CFLAGS via hardening=+all), and call
dh-cargo-built-using explicitly since overriding dh_auto_install
bypasses the cargo buildsystem's own automatic call to it
commit 4612bdad44e48b1b787cfa5fb67356428b8a4f8f
Author: Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Sep 19 16:26:05 2026 +0200
Keep the pre-upload changelog at -1, per Simon's request
commit f9c259154dd7f37e25f02dfa4159a08a4fb9b410
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Sep 17 22:49:59 2026 +0200
Address lintian informational findings from mentors.debian.net
- debian/control: bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4
- debian/watch: add, format version 5, GitHub tags with +ds repack
- debian/upstream/metadata: add (DEP-12)
- debian/patches: fix a real upstream typo (retore -> restore) in the
preferences dialog, forwarded upstream as PR #136
commit 1535c60ba67c0e7498bc27b30f1f2bf69f00c230
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Sep 17 17:49:56 2026 +0200
Fix Upstream-Contact in debian/copyright to the real address
commit 179ac4ac511e4ddd642401af5d5435eeb4a35faf
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Sep 16 23:19:53 2026 +0200
stremio-wrapper: export LC_NUMERIC=C, fixing an mpv init crash
Real crash found while manually testing the built package on this
machine's own locale (en_GB.UTF-8): "Failed to create mpv: Null" panic in
src/app/video/imp.rs, immediately preceded by libmpv's own runtime
message "Non-C locale detected. This is not supported. Call
'setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C");' in your code."
libmpv2's own crate docs already say this plainly ("Libmpv requires
LC_NUMERIC to be C, which should be the default value"), but upstream's
own main.rs never calls setlocale for it, so this fails on essentially
any non-C locale, not just unusual ones -- confirmed with en_GB.UTF-8
specifically. Verified the fix directly: running the built stremio-bin
with LC_NUMERIC=C set gets past mpv initialization cleanly, where it
previously panicked every time.
commit 4f0f3a55e72e3557f19913ae2a8830b700392605
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Sep 16 22:34:32 2026 +0200
Recommend stremio-server-installer instead of a hard Depends on stremio-server
Caught during an adversarial review of the new stremio-server-installer
package: stremio's control file still hard-Depended on a package named
"stremio-server" that was never packaged (server.js turned out to have no
defensible redistribution basis, see stremio-server-installer's own
debian/README.source) -- this would have made stremio literally
uninstallable once uploaded. Recommends the actual installer package
instead; stremio already runs fine without a server (BitTorrent streaming
just becomes unavailable, per upstream's own statement on this).
commit 73e821d5d00b3bcde0f016bd1831c841a1ee359d
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Sep 16 09:03:48 2026 +0200
Add a man page for stremio
lintian flags the binary as missing one (no-manual-page). Documents the
CLI options defined via clap in src/main.rs. Forwarded upstream:
https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-linux-shell/pull/134
Verified via sbuild: usr/share/man/man1/stremio.1.gz ships in the .deb
and the no-manual-page lintian warning is gone.
commit eab46e3a24290fd348d3e7ba4fe14ab48c69c541
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Aug 28 11:40:34 2026 +0200
debian/stremio.install: install the GSettings schema
The app fails at startup with 'Settings schema com.stremio.Stremio is
not installed' -- build.rs's setup_schemas() only compiles it into
$XDG_DATA_HOME at build time (a workaround for the sbuild verification
chroot), it was never actually shipped in the package. Install it to
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ so dh_installgsettings (already part of
the debhelper-compat=13 sequence) wires up the dpkg trigger that
compiles it into gschemas.compiled at package-install time.
commit d29e702c2952fb996af63ce89f5e224240affabf
Merge: b68854a bec732f
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 13:30:52 2026 +0200
Merge new upstream version 1.2.0+ds into master
commit b68854af1ce7a1da7b4f176455ee5c47d0af4659
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 12:41:23 2026 +0200
Repack as +ds: exclude data/server.js (non-DFSG prebuilt JS bundle)
Per the FTP-MASTER-CHECKLIST.md methodology (already applied to the
sibling stremio-gtk/CEF package): data/server.js is a 6.6MB webpack-
minified bundle with no source in this tree, so it can't ship in the
Debian source package. Excluded via Files-Excluded in debian/copyright,
documented in the new debian/README.source.
At runtime the app already reads SERVER_PATH from the environment
(src/server.rs) rather than hardcoding a path, so no source patch is
needed -- just a debian/stremio-wrapper script pointing it at
/usr/share/stremio/server.js, which the stremio-server package (already
a Depends:) installs. Also install the desktop/metainfo/icon files that
were sitting unused in data/.
Version bumped to 1.2.0+ds-1 to match the repacked tarball.
commit 82b97800119ef60b89b7d3d410157757485b1102
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 11:57:00 2026 +0200
debian/copyright: add Expat stanza for the AppStream metainfo.xml
data/com.stremio.Stremio.metainfo.xml declares <metadata_license>MIT
</metadata_license> for itself, distinct from <project_license>GPL-3.0-
only</project_license> for the app as a whole -- a common AppStream
convention allowing catalog reuse of just the metadata. Fixes lintian's
inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license warning.
Per the FTP-MASTER-CHECKLIST.md methodology (licensecheck -r src/ data/
build.rs po/ against debian/copyright): also found data/server.js is a
6.6MB webpack-minified JS bundle with no corresponding source in this
tree -- the same prebuilt-blob DFSG issue already documented for the
CEF-variant package (stremio-dev/FTP-MASTER-CHECKLIST.md), where it's
excluded from the +ds tarball since the separate stremio-server package
ships it. This webkit-variant tarball is not yet repacked as +ds, so
that exclusion is still pending -- not fixed in this commit.
commit 8963867123eef0e662b7d4a246ce494a4c5b7ace
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 11:17:16 2026 +0200
debian/rules,control: fix build.rs's schema-compile step in the chroot
build.rs's setup_schemas() writes the compiled gschema into
$XDG_DATA_HOME/glib-2.0/schemas at build time and shells out to
glib-compile-schemas. $HOME in the sbuild chroot is /sbuild-nonexistent,
so dirs::data_dir() resolved to an unwritable path (Permission denied).
Point XDG_DATA_HOME at a build-local directory instead, and add the
libglib2.0-bin Build-Depends that provides glib-compile-schemas.
commit 0b39c850d7372c1c1aa8c6e5df16e4ee800ba525
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 11:01:52 2026 +0200
debian/rules: use the dh-cargo Debian cargo wrapper for the actual build
override_dh_auto_build previously called plain 'cargo build', which
never picks up the registry redirect dh_auto_configure sets up in
debian/cargo_home/config.toml (that only activates when CARGO_HOME
literally ends in /debian/cargo_home and /usr/share/cargo/bin/cargo,
not /usr/bin/cargo, is what's invoked) -- so it went straight to
crates.io and failed with no network in the build chroot. Export the
same envvars dh-cargo's buildsystem sets internally (CARGO_HOME,
DEB_HOST_RUST_TYPE/GNU_TYPE, CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS) and put
the wrapper first on PATH so our own build/install recipes see the
same environment dh_auto_configure already prepared.
commit cb9177cb40db7cd2111c6646e8a615025b5ed66e
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 10:57:49 2026 +0200
debian/rules: add debian/cargo-checksum.json required by dh-cargo's configure step
dh-cargo's cargo buildsystem unconditionally copies this to
.cargo-checksum.json during dh_auto_configure, for both lib and bin
packages, before running 'cargo prepare-debian --link-from-system'.
commit 0229589798db9846811929bc7f4f8391efc7ecb8
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 09:57:27 2026 +0200
Add debian/ packaging for the WebKitGTK6-based stremio rewrite
Initial packaging: control, rules, changelog, copyright, and the two
Cargo.toml patches (exr-feature-disable, Debian-version-pins). Not yet
upload-quality (copyright needs a full per-file audit, no desktop/icon/
appstream files yet) -- this is a working build for sbuild verification
against the newly-packaged prerequisite crates.
commit 98faf663580448c1621b1a430db5e4e9207c3a38
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 09:57:19 2026 +0200
Revert direct Cargo.toml edits, now captured as debian/patches
The exr-feature-disable and Debian-version-pin changes now live in
debian/patches/0001 and 0002 respectively, applied via quilt at build
time, so the tracked source matches pristine upstream again.
commit cf69d6a0ae2fd7741d10d53390f4ee3587f997b6
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 09:53:59 2026 +0200
Cargo.toml: pin gtk4/gdk4-wayland/libadwaita/anyhow/libc to versions Debian ships
Debian is a few patch releases behind on each; verified the specific
feature flags this crate needs (v4_22, v4_20+wayland_crate, v1_9) already
exist at Debian's shipped version, and the two plain crates (anyhow, libc)
only ever add API in patch releases, never remove.
commit ba7a5cdb4016a919d6b3dfb02f2ffe413bb93437
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 09:51:25 2026 +0200
Cargo.toml: pin base64/flume/itertools/libloading/mpris-server to versions Debian ships
Verified byte-for-byte identical API surface for everything this crate
actually calls (base64::engine::general_purpose + read::DecoderReader,
flume::unbounded, itertools::Itertools::collect_vec,
libloading::os::unix::Library::new, and the full mpris_server::Player/
Metadata builder API this crate uses) between the requested and the
Debian-shipped version of each.
commit 31db708f3bf64246916226fcf4fbe55dc8d67c6c
Author: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <vejeta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 24 09:41:42 2026 +0200
Cargo.toml: disable image's exr feature
OpenEXR poster/thumbnail support isn't needed, and pulls in pulp +
pulp-wasm-simd-flag, neither of which are packaged in Debian.
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