Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: moreinfo User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org
GNOME 3.38 will be released on 2020-09-16, and beta versions of the major packages (versioned 3.37.x) are already making their way into experimental and Ubuntu. Based on upstream's 6 month release schedule and the release team's proposed bullseye freeze dates, this is very likely to be the version that will ship in bullseye. I've tagged this bug as moreinfo because uploads of some necessary packages are currently waiting in NEW, so this is not currently actionable. (If someone on the ftp team can take a look at src:mutter and src:mozjs78, that would be very useful.) As usual, there will be a series of entangled small transitions which I think would be best handled as a single larger transition: * Core packages like gnome-shell, -session, -settings-daemon and gdm3 rely on being at reasonably well-aligned versions and will have Breaks to ensure they're upgraded from 3.36.x to 3.37.x/3.38.x as a batch * gnome-shell needs a new version of mutter with ABI breaks (currently in experimental-NEW) - budgie-core will need at least binNMUs and maybe sourceful changes * evolution-data-server has an ABI break, which has already made its way through NEW - https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-evolution-data-server.html * The new gjs version needs mozjs78 (currently in unstable-NEW). mozjs68 will continue to exist at least briefly, so we don't have to do a flag-day transition, although we should try to remove some versions from bullseye after this transition is over. We currently have: - mozjs52 (old, RC-buggy, used by Cinnamon) - (mozjs60 became unused and was removed) - mozjs68 (used by current gjs, libproxy and experimental policykit-1) + for libproxy we are already considering removing the mozjs plugin (#959805) + for policykit-1 as far as I know there's no intention to ship the version that needs mozjs in testing/unstable - mozjs78 (in NEW) * gnome-shell almost certainly breaks the JavaScript API that is presented to Shell extensions - IMO, extensions that cannot be ported promptly should be removed from testing to avoid holding back the desktop Tracker 3 (#964376) is also intended to release as part of GNOME 3.38, but I don't think it's mandatory, so hopefully we can defer that part until the desktop has gone through. I *think* that's everything, but we don't have the full desktop in experimental yet. The pipewire transition (#966535, also waiting for NEW) touches some of the same packages, and it would be good to get that done so that we can have remote desktop support in bullseye, but they can be done in either order. Pipewire in GNOME is currently disabled, so they wouldn't even interfere with each other. Ben file for the mutter part of the transition: title = "mutter"; is_affected = .depends ~ "libmutter-7-0" | .depends ~ "libmutter-6-0"; is_good = .depends ~ "libmutter-7-0"; is_bad = .depends ~ "libmutter-6-0"; For the e-d-s part, https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-evolution-data-server.html seems to cover it. smcv
