ZIM tools requires libzim 9.2.0 or higher, but Debian does not distribute it

[kelson42]

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[kelson42]

@legoktm Can you tell us which version of Debian is going to benefit of libzim 9.2?

• debian-unstable
• debian-trixie
• debian-bookworm
• debian-bullseye

[legoktm]

I'm currently blocked on upgrading libzim because kiwix-desktop isn't compatible with the new libzim/libkiwix versions from what I can tell. Once that's released I'm ready to go, ideally it would end up in trixie and then bookworm-backports.

[legoktm]

Oh, I see that kiwix/kiwix-desktop#1192 is now merged. Yay! So whenever there's a new release I'll kick off the upgrade process in Debian.

[kelson42]

@legoktm I believe at the core of the problem is software packages relying on not well enough specified version of libzim. You can assume that we follow sementic versioning. So each time we release a major version of a library, then it will potentially break "older" versions of the softwares using it. This is why we have put lines like this: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-desktop/blob/main/debian/control#L10. I believe you should do that as well to avoid the kind of problem you face right now.

[bejp0a]

Any updates? I need to compile zim-tools to use https://github.com/ballerburg9005/wget-2-zim but currently cant on debian 12

[kelson42]

@bejp0a If you use Ubuntu, ever considered using https://ppa.kiwix.org ?