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Details about package sfwbar

Name: sfwbar (PTS)
Uploader: David Richard <davirichar@gmail.com> (Debian QA page)
Description: sfwbar - SFWBar (S* Floating Window Bar) is a flexible taskbar application for wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind.

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Information

Version: 1.0~beta17
Uploaded: 2026-07-29 02:37
Source package: sfwbar_1.0~beta17.dsc
Distribution: unstable
Section: x11
Priority: optional

Changelog

 sfwbar (1.0~beta17) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release of custom package sfwbar for Debian.

QA information

Comments

  1. Hello.

It also appears that sfwbar was previously in Debian but did not make it into the 'testing' release due to significant instability. Has sfwbar become stable enough to be included in Debian Testing and Stable?

Take a look at: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1124450

If you think sfwbar could be included in Debian Testing (and later in Stable), or if you only intend to use it in Unstable, you may go ahead and package it.
But there are some important problems. Your packaging has several problems.
It is better to continue with the existing sfwbar packaging.
Download that from: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/sfwbar/1.0~beta13-1/
    Needs work Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi at July 29, 2026, 6:39 a.m. 
  2. I have mitigated all warnings and most errors. All there is missing is the 2 libc errors. The rest are all resolved. I also updated the source/format to 3.0 (native) instead of 1.0. Copyright and line length limit warnings have all been addressed as well as all the version warnings.

I have been working with sfwbar for more than 2 months now, it had 1 error and LBCrion fixed it within a few days. Right now I consider it in a good testing stage but to be sure, I'd leave it as unstable for the time being for further people to test on their end. If no issues are found, I'm confident to say this is now in testing stage.

I would not put it yet in stable, but to me it is very close to it. The only problem is I do not work with the tray area, notifications and workspaces so having a greater number of people with those specific needs would be welcomed to confirm it's upgrade from unstable to testing and maybe stable.

The problem with the existing beta13, it's very basic and lacks a lot of features and bug corrections now corrected in beta17 which is why I am working on pushing this new deb package. I am in active discussions with LBCrion on GitHub and a lot of issues have been addressed as well as very welcomed new features.
    Needs work David Richard at July 29, 2026, 6:51 a.m. 
  3. Okay, so I've got confirmation from LBCrion that the libc errors are false positives, see github discussion page for more details: https://github.com/LBCrion/sfwbar/discussions. I will change my package and upload a new version of the package with all issues corrected once I have tested it properly. I also installed lintian so I can detect the errors before uploading the package here.
    Needs work David Richard at July 29, 2026, 7:25 a.m. 
  4. Your package must not be native, it must be quilt. For this you just need to add packaging version at the end of upstream version.
1.0~beta17 -> 1.0~beta17-1
    Needs work Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi at July 29, 2026, 7:54 a.m.