Re: Bug#992870: transition: GNOME 40 (libmutter-8-0 and friends)

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

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I think we're ready for the libmutter-8-0 / gnome-shell transition when
the release team is.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 at 13:52:40 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Non-transition blockers that need to be uploaded in advance:
> 
> - wayland-protocols (from experimental, non-GNOME, #992857)
> - pango1.0 (from experimental)
> - gtk4 (from experimental, #992907)

wayland-protocols and pango1.0 are in testing, gtk4 should migrate today.

> Then the libmutter/gnome-shell transition when the release team are
> ready for it:
> 
> - gsettings-desktop-schemas (from experimental)
> - gnome-settings-daemon
>   (from experimental, with a patch to decouple it from the libgweather
>   transition which I'm testing now)
> - gnome-control-center (from experimental)
> - mutter (from experimental)
> - gnome-shell
>   (from experimental, with a patch to decouple it from the libgweather
>   transition which I'm testing now)
> - gnome-remote-desktop (from experimental)
> - gnome-shell-extensions (from experimental)
> - budgie-desktop (non-GNOME, from experimental)

All of these are staged in experimental.

> as usual various third-party extensions will need either updating, or
> temporarily removing from testing

The ones I know about are
https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-40
(plus a few that I maintain myself, which are fixed in experimental already).

The closed bugs on that list are already fixed in either unstable or
experimental; the ones in experimental will just need a re-upload to unstable.

The packages with unclosed bugs on that list are likely to need temporary
removal from testing to let gnome-shell migrate. A few are probably obsolete
and will go away permanently via RM:RoM:
gnome-shell-extension-remove-dropdown-arrows is the only one I'm aware of
right now.

    smcv