16 Jan 2026
Planet Debian
Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.26 on CRAN: Another Microfix
Version 0.0.26 of RcppSpdlog arrived on CRAN moments ago, and will be uploaded to Debian and built for r2u shortly. The (nice) documentation site has been refreshed too. RcppSpdlog bundles spdlog, a wonderful header-only C++ logging library with all the bells and whistles you would want that was written by Gabi Melman, and also includes fmt by Victor Zverovich. You can learn more at the nice package documention site.
Brian Ripley noticed an infelicity when building under C++20 which he is testing hard and fast. Sadly, this came a day late for yesterday's upload of release 0.0.25 with another trivial fix so another incremental release was called for. We already accommodated C++20 and its use of std::format (in lieu of the included fmt::format) but had not turned it on unconditionally. We do so now, but offer an opt-out for those who prefer the previous build type.
The NEWS entry for this release follows.
Changes in RcppSpdlog version 0.0.26 (2026-01-16)
- Under C++20 or later, switch to using
std::formatto avoid a compiler nag that CRAN now complains about
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report detailing changes. More detailed information is on the RcppSpdlog page, or the package documention site.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.
16 Jan 2026 2:26pm GMT
Kentaro Hayashi: Budgie Desktop 10.10 is out, but not for me yet :(
Introduction
I'm one of a Budgie Desktop user since 2020. (Budgie Desktop 10.5 or so)
Recently Budgie Desktop 10.10 had been available from Debian experimental.
I've tried it and realized that not for me yet.
What is the requirement for desktop environment
- Screen sharing with specifying the specific window/application for web meeting
- Sharing keyboard input smoothly with deskflow
- Switch focus with mouse movement
- and ...
Is Budgie Desktop 10.10 suitable?
Short answer: No, not yet.
It seems that Budgie Desktop 10.10 (wayland) lost the functionality - screen sharing with specifying the specific window/application for web meeting.
Of course, you can share your screen itself.
It also can't sharing keyboard input smoothly with deskflow.
Both of them seems that they are supported in GNOME? or KDE?.
In contrast to Budgie Desktop 10.9 (X11), Budgie Desktop 10.10 seems missing effective wayland + xdg-desktop-portal support for them yet.
It might be supported in the future release, but it might be 11.x.
Alternatives?
Budgie Desktop 10.x will come into maintenance mode, so they will not be fixed in 10.x releases (guess).
Switching DE might be an option - GNOME or KDE. but I don't have much the energy to make the transition for now.
I decided to take the conservative option and go back to 10.9.
Note that if you upgrade to Budgie Desktop 10.10, it is hard to downgrade to Budgie Desktop 10.9 because python3-gi, python3-gi-cairo dependency blocks budgie-desktop.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1120138 for details.
As a dirty hack, you can modify python3-gi dependency and install it as your own risk for downgrading.
Conclusion
It was still too early to adopt Budgie Desktop (wayland) for me. I'll stay with Budgie Desktop 10.9 for a while.
That said, it's unclear how long Budgie Desktop 10.9 will remain unstable and usable. There might be a case that sticking to Budgie Desktop 10.9 might be problematic when other packages are updated.
When that happens, I'd like to reconsider this issue again.
16 Jan 2026 12:36pm GMT
Jonathan Dowland: Ye Gods
Via (I think) @mcc on the Fediverse, I learned of GetMusic: a sort-of "clearing house" for Free Bandcamp codes. I think the way it works is, some artists release a limited set of download codes for their albums in order to promote them, and GetMusic help them to keep track of that, and helps listeners to discover them.
GetMusic mail me occasionally, and once they highlighted an album The Arcane & Paranormal Earth which they described as "Post-Industrial in the vein of Coil and Nurse With Wound with shades of Aphex Twin, Autechre and assorted film music."
Well that description hooked me immediately but I missed out on the code. However, I sampled the album on Bandcamp directly a few times as well as a few of his others (Ye Gods is a side-project of Antoni Maiovvi, which itself is a pen-name) and liked them very much. I picked up the full collection of Ye Gods albums in one go for 30% off.
Here's a stand-out track:
So I guess this service works! Although I didn't actually get a free code in this instance, it promoted the artist, introduced me to something I really liked and drove a sale.
16 Jan 2026 10:14am GMT