Bug#1081519: transition: gnome-shell 47
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Tags: moreinfo
Control: block -1 by 1080521 1079548
Control: affects -1 + src:gnome-shell src:mutter src:gnome-settings-daemon src:gnome-remote-desktop
User: [email protected]
Usertags: transition
Forwarded: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gnome-shell-47.html
The GNOME team is preparing GNOME 47 in experimental. As usual, we will
need a transition to get a new libmutter SONAME into testing, and to
get GNOME Shell and its extensions migrated.
This is the GNOME release that is likely to be shipped in Debian 13,
assuming a freeze date somewhere between December 2024 and March 2025.
GNOME 47 is not fully released yet (release day is the 14th) but I'm
opening this bug a little early to make the release team aware.
Blockers
========
We should get GTK 4.16.x into unstable first (#1079548).
We are waiting for GNOME 47 final releases which are due on Saturday
(currently most of it is at release-candidate status), hence moreinfo tag.
We should seriously consider getting gjs upgraded to 1.81.x/1.82.x either
first or at the same time, which will require a mini-transition to remove
it from armel (#1080521).
Ideally gnome-settings-daemon would go along with this transition, but it
has several very flaky build-time tests which cause FTBFS. If they can't
be fixed soon, a mitigation would be to disable those tests (I suspect
this is a problem with the test scaffolding rather than g-s-d itself).
Packages involved
=================
The core packages are all GNOME-team-maintained:
gjs
gnome-control-center
gnome-kiosk
gnome-remote-desktop
gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-shell
gnome-shell-extensions
mutter
nautilus
xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
and then as usual, we will need to do a mass removal of any GNOME Shell
extensions that have not been updated (several are already fixed in
experimental and can be team-uploaded or NMU'd to unstable, but some
will almost certainly need to be removed from testing):
https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gnome-shell-47.html
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-47
Thanks,
smcv
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