Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Control: tags -1 + moreinfo X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Control: affects -1 + src:gnome-shell User: [email protected] Usertags: transition
We now have GNOME Shell 50 in experimental (I'm typing this email into it) and I've just done the usual MBF asking extensions authors to update. This will also be the GNOME release used in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Jeremy, Marco: are we ready to ask for a transition slot? (Tagged moreinfo for now.) This time, the group of entangled packages is: * gdm3 * gnome-kiosk * gnome-remote-desktop * gnome-session * gnome-shell * mutter all of which are GNOME-team-maintained. The headline change is that GNOME 50 doesn't support being run as an X11 session using Xorg, at all: it's Wayland or nothing. X11 apps can still run inside the session via Xwayland as usual. libgdm1 has an ABI break with no SONAME bump (sigh) as a result of its X11 functionality being removed, but that library is not widely used and it seems that the symbols that were removed were only used within gdm3 or by gnome-kiosk, so we can probably get away with using a versioned Breaks on gnome-kiosk (already present) rather than bumping the package name to libgdm1a. https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-mutter.html tracks the mutter SONAME bump. When we upload gnome-shell to unstable, it will presumably also generate an auto-upperlimit- tracker. Usertagged bugs (all Shell extensions right now, but we can use the same usertag for any other blockers): https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-50 As usual, the automated tests for gnome-shell and mutter are not as reliable as we would like, so some retries might be necessary. I'm reluctant to disable them completely because they're our only opportunity to find out whether things are completely broken on non-x86, but we can if we have to. Thanks, smcv
