Unofficial Liferea 1.5 packages
I’ve prepared a set of experimental packages of 1.5.5. They seem to be working fine, and are ready for some testing from brave users.
I’m not going to upload them soon to Debian experimental, since I want to be able to use that if for some reason I need testing of an urgent 1.4 update before the Lenny release.
Meanwhile, take a look at http://www.nul-unu.com/quien/rodrigo/debian/liferea/
There are source and amd64 binary packages. I’ll try to get access to some i386 machine to compile them there. One of these days 
October 21st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I built the packages for i386 in a fresh sid pbuilder chroot and installed the liferea package, but when I run it, it displays the following messages and aborts:
** ERROR **: Sorry, I was not able to load any installed browser plugin! Try the—debug-plugins option to get debug information!
aborting…
I tried it again with the—debug-plugins option and it failed as follows:
PLUGINS: Scanning for plugins (/usr/lib/liferea):
PLUGINS: -> LUA Scripting Support Plugin (libliscrlua.so, type=4)
PLUGINS: Cannot open /usr/lib/liferea/liblihtmlx.so (/usr/lib/liferea/liblihtmlx.so: undefined symbol: mozsupport_xpcom_init)!
PLUGINS: -> libnotify notification (liblinotiflibnotify.so, type=3)
** ERROR **: Sorry, I was not able to load any installed browser plugin! Try the—debug-plugins option to get debug information!
aborting…
October 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I was able to get it to work using the patch at http://ftbfs.org/liferea-1.5.5.patch, which I extracted from http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2008-May/msg03644.html.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Oops. That’s what I get from only using webkit these days.
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
> I’ll try to get access to some i386 machine to compile them there
You can build i386 packages on an amd64 machine.
With cowbuilder:
I then use the following in my ~/.pbuilderrc file:
PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=”cowbuilder—build—basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid_i386.cow”
Cheers,
Julien
October 30th, 2008 at 2:40 am
When I quit Liferea, it displays displays the following message and aborts:
liferea-bin: glibcurl.c:475: prepare: Assertion `source == &curlSrc->source’ failed.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
I tried the liferea-webkit package. It sometimes displays the scrollbar incorrectly (i.e., the bar was missing or wasn’t in the correct scroll position), though, so I’ve switched back. I see that Gecko will no longer be supported in 1.5.6, though.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
When I subscribe to a feed, the title is left as “New Subscription.” I’m pretty sure that it used to change to the feed’s title.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Matt, thanks for the reports. Yes, upstream wants to go with webkit only for 1.5, knowing what’s still wrong helps in getting there.