Repository activities from 2024-08-13 to 2024-08-27

Repository roundup

ffmpeg, a framework to encode and decode multimedia resources, mal updated it to 5.1.6.
gstreamer, a multimedia framework, mal upgraded to the latest upstream version 1.24.6. The various plugins were also upgraded accordingly.
qtgrilo, a framework for discovering and browsing media, Qt bindings, pvuorela added a function to fetch a media item for an arbitrary row in QML.

qmf-notifications-plugin, a plugin to send notifications on email changes, dcaliste modified the code to drop unread notifications from the event screen for emails, as soon as such emails are opened in the mail application and not when the process of propagating this read status to the server complete. Now, notifications are immediately removed from the event view when reading emails off-line.
voicecall, the open source part of the calling application, dcaliste created a plugin to log call history. This plugin simplifies and replaces some code from commhistory-daemon. Initially, call logging was done in commhistory-daemon by listening to Telepathy (a large communication framework) messages. voicecall also has such a Telepathy plug-in to expose calls to QML, resulting in duplicated code.
commhistory-daemon, the daemon handling call and message history, dcaliste removed the code logging calls. pvuorela removed some dead code, unused since Meego era. mal fixed building issues with GCC 11 and newer.

dsme, device state management entity, spiiroin modified DSME logic so that RTC (real-time clock) device is opened only when there is actual need for it and closed once the need is gone. Indeed, some android services insist on inspecting the RTC time on startup. Having DSME hold on to RTC device permanently causes such services to be blocked.
nfcd, the daemon for near field communication, slava modified the code to make ndef-share tool works more reliably: deactivating the interface right after the final response has been sent over NFC may be too early for the other side - it may still need some time to fully process our response.
libconnman-qt, QML bindings for the connection manager, pvuorela ensured logging categories are in-use by the library, and avoided cases where datatypes are not properly registered for NetworkTechnology objects in QML.

spectacle, a Python tool to generate RPM spec files, nephros renamed SafeConfigParser to ConfigParser, since Python 3.2 changed the name and now Python 3.12 is removing the old name.
orc, a library to generate optimized code operating on arrays of data, mal updated it to 0.4.39.
libngf-qt, Qt-based client library for Non-Graphic Feedback daemon, neochapay updated the repository for Qt6.
libusb-moded-qt, a library of Qt bindings for usb_moded, neochapay fixed hard-coded path to Qt5.
sdk-build-tools, scripts used to build the Sailfish SDK in its production environment, martyone based the tools on Ubuntu 22.04 for the host parts and also used MSYS2 as package providers on Windows.
sailfish-qtcreator, the Qt IDE, martyone upgraded internal GDB to 12.1.