Bug#1143579: transition: gnome-desktop 51

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 04/08/2026 14:46, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> Control: affects -1 + src:gnome-desktop
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: transition
> 
> I request permission to do the transition for gnome-desktop 51 which
> is currently in experimental.
> 
> I verified that all reverse-dependencies build. Most were successful
> with the Salsa CI test. The rest I verified locally.
> - budgie-control-center 2.1.2-1 builds but that version was released
> after the Salsa CI test
> - phosh builds ok as long as phoc is rebuilt against the new gnome-desktop first
> - phosh-mobile-settings builds ok as long as phoc and then phosh is
> rebuilt against the new gnome-desktop first. phosh-mobile-settings
> does not need to be rebuilt for this transition though.
> https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-desktop/-/pipelines/1142069
> 
> The automatic tracker is good:
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-gnome-desktop.html
> 
> Other info
> ------------
> We recently successfully completed this transition in Ubuntu where it
> got entangled with the gnome-shell & mutter 51 transition. The
> gnome-desktop transition was ineligible to smoothly migrate. I believe
> that was because Ubuntu did the removal of the "gnome-rr" packages,
> including gir1.2-gnomerr-4.0, at the same time as the C soname
> increase transition. I believe gir* packages are not eligible for
> smooth migration since they are in section introspection instead of
> section libs or oldlibs. I believe I have avoided this in Debian by
> first doing the gnome-rr removal in gnome-desktop 44.5-2 which has
> already migrated to Testing. (The gnome-rr components had no remaining
> reverse dependencies.)

Go ahead.

Cheers,
Emilio