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newsGeany version 2.1 compiled
I am very interested in the Zig language, and Geany 2.1 has added
syntax highlighting for Zig. Debian Trixie has geany 2.0, which doesn't
support Zig, and they are on hard-freeze so won't be upgrading it.
I attempted to backport the Zig highlighting, but to no avail.
So, compiled Geany 2.1 and also geany-plugins, and created PETs.
The approach that I have taken so far in Easy Excalibur is to install
"foreign" packages, that is, those not in the Devuan/Debian repo, as
invisible to APT. These are .pet and .tar.xz packages.
There are various strategies, one is to use the "equivs" mechanism,
to create a dummy .deb, say 'geany_9.999_amd64.deb', that has nothing in
it, but APT will then think that geany is installed; which it is, but
from a .pet, not from the Debian repo.
However, this time trying a different method. Marking geany and all the geany-plugin DEBs as uninstallable, as explained here:
And in /root/.packages/PKGS_MANAGEMENT, adding all the geany* DEBs to
the PKG_NAME_IGNORE variable, so they won't be offered in PKGget.
Can't say that this is better way of doing it; just trying it. Probably "equivs" is more elegant.
Note that the Easy Excalibur 6.119 doesn't have any geany-plugin-*
DEBs installed, but now it is one single PET package with all the
plugins -- the .pet is 1.5MB, can live with that, as the geany plugins
are useful.
Geany homepage:
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