Bug#969321: transition: GNOME 3.38, libmutter-7-0

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

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Hi Simon,

On 25/09/2020 00:09, Simon McVittie wrote:
> budgie-desktop should be the only non-GNOME-team package directly affected
> by this, apart from gnome-shell-xrdesktop which is not in testing anyway
> (and needs to move to contrib). budgie needs at least a rebuild and maybe
> source changes, but there's already a version built against libmutter-7-0
> waiting in experimental.
> 
> Ubuntu already did this transition.
> 
> As I said before, some GNOME Shell extensions will almost certainly break,
> but we don't know which ones (I checked the few I maintain personally and
> they seem OK). I think we should be fairly trigger-happy about removing
> these from testing if they're broken or uninstallable.

Let's go ahead with the mutter/shell transition.

>> * evolution-data-server has an ABI break, which has already made its way
>>   through NEW
>>   - https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-evolution-data-server.html
> 
> I think we can perhaps defer this one until after mutter, Shell and
> the other core packages have gone through? Or we could entangle them,
> whichever you'd prefer. There are more packages involved and I don't know
> the status of all of them: Sebastien Bacher would probably know better.

Depending on the status of the rdeps, I may be fine with entangling them. But if
you prefer to do one after the other that's alright too.

Cheers,
Emilio