Bug#1030683: gnome-shell-extensions-extra: unmaintainable

Hi Simon,

On 2/9/23 14:50, Simon McVittie wrote:
> My understanding from the changelog is that the maintainer Daniel Baumann
> first packaged a bunch of GNOME Shell extensions according to the GNOME
> team's usual convention (one package per independent upstream project),
> and then was asked by the ftp team to replace them with a single package
> collecting together multiple unrelated extensions?

yes, that's correct.

> If one of the bundled extensions isn't ready for a new GNOME Shell and
> can't easily be ported, then "hold back all the bundled extensions" isn't
> really an option: we are not going to delay a GNOME Shell upgrade just
> because an extension isn't keeping up, because GNOME Shell is much more
> important to the distribution than any individual extension.

absolutely, yes; however..

> The options
> would be to drop incompatible extensions from the bundled package, or
> to remove the entire bundled package from testing until it can be made
> compatible again.

..I don't think for this case it matters whetever an extension is part
of an aggregated package or not:

  * if it's a standalone src+bin package, the extension would have an RC
    bug and would eventually be removed from testing until it's fixed.

  * if it's part of an aggregated package, the extension would be
    dropped from the aggregated package until it's fixed.

so, basically same result from a testing users point of view wrt/
availability of the extension in the archive.

Regards,
Daniel