"Package 'wlroots' requires 'wayland-protocols >= 1.17' but version of wayland-protocols is 1.12" during building

[mYnDstrEAm]

I was trying to build the latest release on Debian11/KDE. For this I had to install meson and chmod /usr/bin/ccache /usr/bin/cc and /usr/bin/gcc. When I ran meson build it returned: meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Compiler ccache cc can not compile programs. installing gcc-multilib was not required, instead I only had to also chmod /usr/bin/as. Then I also installed libwlroots6 libwlroots-dev.

Now my problem is that meson build returns:

Run-time dependency wlroots found: NO (tried cmake)

meson.build:37:0: ERROR: Could not generate cargs for wlroots:
Package 'wlroots' requires 'wayland-protocols >= 1.17' but version of wayland-protocols is 1.12

Does this mean it's not yet supported on Debian11 (with Wayland) and one would need to wait to be able install it there?

Once it's available, it would be great if this could be added to the Debian repos.

[Hjdskes]

Hi @mYnDstrEAm. This means that the version of wayland-protocols in Debian 11 is too old. There is not much I can do about that.

Once it's available, it would be great if this could be added to the Debian repos.

Looks like someone filed a request to package Cage for Debian already: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=927899. It's not up to me to package Cage for different distributions :)