Bug#740137: transition: gnome-desktop3
Control: retitle -1 transition: gnome 3.12
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 25/05/14 13:05, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> A status update.
>
> On 06/04/14 02:04, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 24/03/14 23:04, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> Control: tag -1 confirmed
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:06:36 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>
>>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>>>> Usertags: transition
>>>>
>>>> Another GNOME transition. For this one we have to wait till mid-March or so
>>>> for gnome-desktop3 3.11.91 or .92 (beta and RC respectively), but I'm
>>>> opening this now as I just rebuilt all the rdeps, and to let you know so we
>>>> can plan in advance. The affected packages are:
>>>>
>>> Feel free to upload to sid. Please tag this bug pending when you do,
>>> and ping us when you need binNMUs (ie source uploads are done and built
>>> everywhere).
>>
>> I forgot to comment here. When I tested the new gnome-desktop with the sid rdeps
>> rebuilt against it, I realized that gnome-settings-daemon had a few plugins that
>> were failing because of the missing API (which didn't trigger a build failure
>> because they are plugins...). I was able to fix a few but one or two important
>> ones I couldn't fix because they relied on the removed API. What upstream has
>> done is move that functionality to gnome-shell/mutter, so we need to update
>> gnome-shell/mutter/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-desktop at the same time (or at
>> least that is my current understanding). Thus I'd like to do the other
>> transitions (gnome-online-accounts, evolution-data-server) first, and leave this
>> one for the end.
>
> Those were done now, but there's another one that needs to be done first: upower
> 0.99 (bugs are being filed, I suppose a transition bug will come soon). After
> upower is done, I think the whole gnome-desktop/mutter/gjs/gnome-shell
> transition could be done (with a few patches to keep using bluez 4 for now). I
> need to check if there are any other problems and I'll also prepare it
> (including those patches) to (try to) make the whole thing as smooth as possible.
upower has started now and bluez 5 is in sid, so let's go with this as there are
no other conflicts. This will allow upower to finish, and upower can
smooth-update so the two won't get entangled.
Emilio
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