Bug#1032450: unblock (pre-approval): gtk+3.0/3.24.37-2
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 at 13:13:08 +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2023-03-07 01:12:58 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > gtk+3.0_3.24.37 is in experimental at the moment, and we'd like to
> > include it in bookworm if possible.
>
> Are there any other stable releases planned for the 3.24.x series during
> the freeze?
We won't know until/unless they happen. GTK 3 is in maintenance mode and
has no fixed schedule: releases happen whenever upstream gets round to
making them.
As a result of regressions like the startup-notification thing that's
fixed in 3.24.37, the primary maintainer upstream has said that he's going
to be increasingly strict about what backports he'll allow into 3.x in
future, although it remains to be seen how that policy will turn out.
(I'd personally prefer it if new features like the file transfer portal
were done as a 3.25.x prerelease followed by a 3.26.x stable release,
the same way GTK 3 historically worked and GTK 4 still does, but upstream
has historically considered that to be too much release-management work
for the major versions that are in maintenance mode, so I think we're
unlikely to get that.)
smcv
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