The packaging of the Fairphone and it's accessories has braille! I have never seen any packaging other than medicine have braille. I'm so impressed. Even the location of the qr code is highlighted with embossing. It seems to say "scan qr code for help".
#fairphone #braille #phone #smartphone #packaging #accessibility #a11y #blind
📦 "cpak: an OCI-compliant packaging for IoT & Desktop"
with @mirkobrombin #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 15:10 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧱 Daemon-free, portal-free packaging—cpak is a modern way to ship apps for IoT, servers & the Linux desktop.
🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/ses…
#cpak #Linux #Packaging #OCI #FOSS
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
New checks in #namcap allow us to have an easier time adding #SPDX compliant #license identifiers for #packages! 🎉
lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty…
The initial integration has been worked out in RFC0016:
rfc.archlinux.page/0016-spdx-l…
#ArchLinux #SPDX #licenses #packaging
Use SPDX license identifiers in PKGBUILDs Date proposed: 2022-11-17 RFC MR: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/16 Summary Change to using SPDX license identifiers in the PKGBUILD license value for packages in all repositorie…rfc.archlinux.page
We are dropping the Autotools build for GTK 3.x, and have fully switched to Meson. If you package GTK 3 and you are still using Autotools, now is the time to switch.
For more information, see the announcement on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/removing…
#gtk #meson #autotools #distro #packaging
The next GTK 3 release, 3.24.46, will drop support for building with Autotools. GTK has been using Meson in its main development branch since 2016, and in the gtk-3-24 branch since 2018. While we did not officially support the Meson build in the 3.GNOME Discourse
Speaking of #repod:
If you are a #python programmer and are also a bit into #packaging, have a look and help create the future of #archlinux package repository management:
repod.archlinux.page
gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…
We are currently hard at work to build a straight forward user experience on the command-line with 0.3.0: gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…
