Post #2895969
2026-01-03 18:02 UTC
@matt@toot.cafe Case in point: the Orca package
In Debian stable they're shipping Orca 48.1. Upstream, the latest release of Orca 48 is 48.7. You can see the change log to read through which bug fixes Debian isn't shipping: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/blob/gnome-48/NEWS
Orca is also available in the Backports repo, up to 49.5! However, there's no backport of gnome-shell so we'd still be missing half the solution. If we look at Debian 12 Backports: Orca is 48.1 but gnome-shell is on 43.9. And thus: no working Wayland keybinds
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@AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org 2026-01-03 18:06
@matt@toot.cafe (and of course, Backports isn't Stable. So by using it you're starting to mix and match new packages with old packages. This is why I say it's a can of worms: it's perfectly possible to run a new Orca on an old GNOME and things like this Wayland accessibility fix will simply not function) Anyway, all this to say that LTS distros are bad in many dimensions, and accessibility is one of them. Especially if there's not a company with compliance requirements standing behind the LTS