[WIP] New package: linux-steam-integration-0.7.3

[xolophreny]

General

• This is a new package and it conforms to the quality requirements

Have the results of the proposed changes been tested?

• I use the packages affected by the proposed changes on a regular basis and confirm this PR works for me
• I generally don't use the affected packages but briefly tested this PR

Closes #19282, caveats:

• Needs both 64-bit and 32-bit packages installed to work properly
• Couldn't test if liblsi-intercept.so and liblsi-redirect.so work at all for the following reason:
• Manually installing replacements for steam runtime components is a challenge, at some point I got stuck with lsi-steam crashing at launch without meaningful errors, and regular steam with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 not launching with

src/clientdll/appdatacache.cpp (2640) : Assertion Failed: !bSharedKVSymbols
src/clientdll/appdatacache.cpp (2640) : Assertion Failed: !bSharedKVSymbols

whatever that might mean. I'm not sure if lsi-steam crash is related to lsi-steam or steam itself, any help would be appreciated.

[ericonr]

The first three should be detected automatically once the package is built. I'm not sure this should depend on steam either... Couldn't it still be useful if you use flatpak or install it manually some other way?

[xolophreny]

It is built to assume that normal steam is at /usr/bin/steam, so if flatpak steam follows that, yeah, I guess it'd work

[ericonr]

Indent multiline variables with a single space.

[ericonr]

Also no need for the back slashes.

[ericonr]

If it works with flatpak steam, we should remove the limitation and allow x86_64* i686*.

[Johnnynator]

I'm pretty sure this does nothing for flatpak. (except ofc if you install it inside of flatpak).

[Johnnynator]

I'm not sure at all if this package should be added to the repo.

For one it is not actively developed anymore, but it is guaranteed to require maintenance due to the way it is working. Furthermore it has an hard coded list of sonames and versions it can replace, so it also will get less usefull over time even if it doesn't break.

Furthermore this current version should at least run into this problem: solus-project/linux-steam-integration#82

Furthermore, how many games do even really benefit from this nowadays?

[xolophreny]

I'm not sure at all if this package should be added to the repo.

For one it is not actively developed anymore, but it is guaranteed to require maintenance due to the way it is working. Furthermore it has an hard coded list of sonames and versions it can replace, so it also will get less usefull over time even if it doesn't break.

Furthermore, how many games do even really benefit from this nowadays?

Agreed on all that. Even getting it to work at all, ideally, requires something like a steam-runtime meta-package that pulls runtime replacements in. Tried to cobble that together but that'd really need a clean system, which I don't have unfortunately.

Furthermore this current version should at least run into this problem: solus-project/linux-steam-integration#82

Oh right, that... Well that specific issue luckily has a patch that could be introduced here, but yeah, LSI indeed seems not quite maintained and/or useful enough now.