On Sun, 06 Aug 2023 at 18:21:29 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > It's about time we migrate GNOME Shell 44 to unstable.
I think this is ready to go. Repeating the list of packages needing sourceful uploads from experimental into unstable in approximately this order, for the release team's convenience: * mutter * gnome-shell * gnome-shell-extensions * gnome-remote-desktop * budgie-desktop * gnome-shell-extension-bluetooth-quick-connect * gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect * gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant And then any remaining extensions in https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-44 will need temporarily removing from testing to let the transition through. The release team has traditionally been relatively trigger-happy about removing broken Shell extensions, since they are clearly less important than GNOME itself. When the transition is otherwise ready to migrate, I'll provide a full list of packages needing removal. > There is one current blocker, #1042980, which is that gnome-shell is > failing build-time tests on mips64el and mipsel. This has essentially been resolved. There is an apparent bug in llvmpipe, which we would normally use to run the build-time tests: https://bugs.debian.org/1049404 There is also an apparent timing-, thread- or race-condition-related bug in gnome-shell or one of its dependencies, seen only when using softpipe: https://bugs.debian.org/1049407 I think neither of these needs to be RC or block this transition, since GNOME is primarily designed to be used on hardware GPUs (and secondarily on fast x86 VMs with working llvmpipe), so we're now skipping the affected tests on mips(64)el. > I've asked a mips porter to confirm whether Shell > v43 works with unstable's LLVM and Mesa or whether it is already broken According to mips porter YunQiang Su, both v43 and v44 work acceptably on the category of mips64el hardware where it would be reasonable to run a full GNOME session (with an AMD GPU supported by Mesa). smcv
