Mike Gabriel: Debian Lomiri Tablets 2025-2027 – Project Report (Q3/2025)
Debian Lomiri for Debian 13 (previous project)
In our previous project around Debian and Lomiri (lasting until July
2025), we achieved to get Lomiri 0.5.0 (and with it another 130
packages) into Debian (with two minor exceptions [1]) just in time
for the Debian 13 release in August 2025.
Debian Lomiri for Debian 14
At DebConf in Brest, a follow-up project has been designed between the
project sponsor and Fre(i)e Software GmbH [2]. The new project (on paper)
started on 1st August 2025 and project duration was agreed on to be 2
years, allowing our company to work with an equivalent of ~5 FTE on
Lomiri targetting the Debian 14 release some time in the second half of
2027 (an assumed date, let’s see what happens).
Ongoing work would be covered from day one of the new project and once
all contract details had been properly put on paper end of September,
Fre(i)e Software GmbH started hiring a new team of software developers
and (future) Debian maintainers. (More of that new team in our next
Q4/2025 report).
The ongoing work of Q3/2025 was basically Guido Berhörster and myself
working on Morph Browser Qt6 (mostly Guido together with Bhushan from
MiraLab [3]) and package maintenance in Debian (mostly me).
Morph Browser Qt6
The first milestone we could reach with the Qt6 porting of Morph Browser [4]
and related components (LUITK aka lomiri-ui-toolkit (big chunk! [5]),
lomiri-content-hub, lomiri-download-manager and a few other components)
was reached on 21st Sep 2025 with an upload of Morph Browser
1.2.0~git20250813.1ca2aa7+dfsg-1~exp1 to Debian experimental and the
Lomiri PPA [6]).
Preparation of Debian 13 Updates (still pending)
In background, various Lomiri updates for Debian 13 have been prepared
during Q3/2025 (with a huge patchset), but publishing those to Debian 13
are still pending as tests are still not satisfying.
[1] lomiri-push-service and nuntium
[2] https://freiesoftware.gmbh
[3] https://miralab.one/
[4] https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/morph-browser/-/merge_reques… et al.
[5] https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-ui-toolkit/-/merge_re… et al.
[6] https://launchpad.net/~lomiri
