Re: Bug#1050237: transition: mutter/gnome-shell 45

Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I don't think this was cc'd to the release team when it was reassigned,
so quoting full text below for the release team's reference:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 at 14:09:06 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> We will be ready to do the GNOME Shell/Mutter 45 transition once
> magpie is accepted from Debian NEW and budgie-desktop switches to it.
> I'm setting the moreinfo tag until that happens.
> 
> The remaining sourceful re-uploads from Experimental are:
> 
> * mutter
> * gnome-shell
> * gnome-shell-extensions
> * gnome-remote-desktop
> 
> And these extensions, so far:
> * gnome-shell-extension-appindicator
> * gnome-shell-extension-arc-menu
> * gnome-shell-extension-caffeine
> * gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel
> * gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock
> * gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
> * gnome-shell-extension-espresso
> * gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect
> * gnome-shell-extension-hide-activities
> * gnome-shell-extension-kimpanel
> * gnome-shell-extension-runcat
> * gnome-shell-extension-shortcuts
> * gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant
> * gnome-shell-pomodoro
> * gpaste
> * workrave
> * yaru-theme
> 
> And then any remaining extensions in
> https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-45
> will need to be either fixed or temporarily kicked out of testing
> to let the transition through.
> 
> We can provide a specific list of extensions to remove from Testing
> when we get to that point in the transition.
> 
> Notably, every GNOME Shell extension needs to be adjusted for the new
> ESM import style. It is not possible for extensions to be compatible
> with both GNOME Shell >=45 and <=44 without some source code changes.
> For more details of required changes, see
> https://gjs.guide/extensions/upgrading/gnome-shell-45.html
> 
> The tracker for this transition is
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gnome-shell-45.html
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