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Bug#992870: transition: GNOME 40 (libmutter-8-0 and friends)



On 2021-09-14 09:12:34 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 at 20:17:36 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > According to
> > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-upperlimit-gnome-shell.html
> > it might be necessary to remove
> > gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast_1.1.0+git20210116.3252312-1 from
> > testing if #993061 cannot be fixed soon. The other packages with an upper
> > limit have already been uploaded to unstable and will hopefully transition
> > reasonably smoothly.
> 
> Looking at the migration excuses for gnome-shell, I think we will need
> something more like this:
> 
> remove gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock/69-1
> remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/20.04.0+git20200908-8
> remove gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast/1.1.0+git20210116.3252312-1

Removal hints added

> 
> I'm not sure why the first two would block migration since they don't have
> an upper limit on their version numbers, but those extensions haven't been
> ported to gnome-shell 40, so they aren't going to work in practice anyway.
> 
> Unfortunately this transition has got caught behind glibc, so will likely
> take a while to migrate. This seems to be a bug in glibc's mipsel symbols
> file (I'll open a bug for that).

Thanks. The latest upload of glibc looks like it would soon be able to
migrate and fixed the symbols file. If there are new regressions that
prevent migration of some of the ongoing transtions, I will look at some
additional binNMUs

Cheers

> 
>     smcv
> 

-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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