Re: GNOME 43 updates for Debian 12
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 7:11 AM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> I've started https://wiki.debian.org/Gnome/BookwormUpdates, contributions
> welcome.
>
> Probably many of the packages in "to be evaluated" are too high-risk or
> too much work to be updating as a priority; please move them to
> "intentionally skipped" if they seem like a bad tradeoff.
I added a few more items to the wiki page. I moved a few to the
"intentionally skipped" section.
I don't know what our selection criteria is, as I've only done a
handful of Debian Stable Updates myself.
For instance, gnome-remote-desktop 43.4 only has a single change,
adding a translation for Belarusian. Maybe that's a simple targeted
bugfix and it doesn't matter that we don't understand the language;
adding a language is clearly going to be better for those users.
Unfortunately, Debian Stable Updates are far enough removed from what
I normally work on (and like you, I work on many things) that I expect
I likely won't be able to provide much more help with Bookworm
updates.
In the specific case of GNOME Shell 43, the risk/benefit is too
unbalanced for us to do any more uploads of that series to Ubuntu
22.10 which will quickly be End of Life and Ubuntu 23.04 (with GNOME
44) is a better choice for our users and work.
Approximately now, GNOME is preparing the 43.7 release with the final
official 43 series release in mid-to-late September. Not all parts of
GNOME participate. For instance, the Evolution stack reached End of
Life once GNOME 44 was released.
https://wiki.gnome.org/FortyFive
By the way, I found this weekend's Plasma situation to be an
interesting but long read. https://bugs.debian.org/1035056
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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