Bug#1144676: Upgrading gnome-terminal kills existing terminals

Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.rc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 at 13:13:48 +0200, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
>Do you want me to do a new gnome-terminal upload to switch it back to
>debhelper compat 13 now?

No need, I already uploaded one. (diffoscope says there's no functional 
change other than the maintainer scripts.)

>Can we think of any other GNOME packages that we would not want to
>update to debhelper compat 14 until we implement a workaround?

Anything that has a systemd user service, where it would be a serious 
problem for that service to restart when upgraded. (gnome-shell!)

If in doubt, test the upgrade by installing it locally (a "live" 
upgrade, not a reboot-to-upgrade), and if your session survives, it's 
probably OK.

     smcv
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