jibri debian package depends on icewm

[532910]

I believe it must not.

% apt show jibri
Package: jibri
Version: 8.0-145-g1a4bb8e-1
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: dev@jitsi.org
Installed-Size: 40.0 MB
Depends: default-jre-headless | java8-runtime-headless | java8-runtime, ffmpeg, curl, alsa-utils, icewm, xdotool, xserver-xorg-video-dummy, procps, ruby-hocon
Download-Size: 35.4 MB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
Description: Jibri
 Jibri can be used to capture data from a Jitsi Meet conference and record it to a file or stream it to a url

N: There are 16 additional records. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
% apt policy jibri 
jibri:
  Installed: 8.0-145-g1a4bb8e-1
  Candidate: 8.0-145-g1a4bb8e-1
  Version table:
 *** 8.0-145-g1a4bb8e-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     8.0-140-gccc7278-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-139-g7ab9aa2-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-137-g260cee3-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-121-g27323fe-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-116-gca0c772-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-114-g20e233e-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-113-g56bf495-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-105-gddca7a2-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-104-g9871ba1-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-93-g51fe7a2-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-83-g204354d-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-61-g99288dc-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-53-ga574be9-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-34-gd133175-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-14-g0ccc3f6-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages
     8.0-0-ge9fa56a-1 500
        500 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ Packages

[532910]

the same as xdotool

[saghul]

Jibri starts Chrome in a window manager (I'm not sure it will behave well otherwise) and icewm is a sensible option. What problem do you have with it?

[532910]

Sorry for late response ): No problem, but why this couldn't be done without icewm?

Moreover, as I see xdotool is not used: it was added in https://github.com/jitsi/jibri/commit/de96c0ac263c5937dd2200a7c544048cac092efe and removed in https://github.com/jitsi/jibri/commit/0907e0384072ba3deab18370ac50f85aa0197e56

[532910]

https://github.com/jitsi/jibri/pull/531

[saghul]

It might be possible to skip icewm, but at this point the risk of having problems because of that is way higher than the reward, since it consumes virtually nothing.

[532910]

Agree. Possible this should be reworked with wayland, when it become working and stable enough?

[saghul]

Surely Wayland would a large enough change that will warrant re-evaluating that.