Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

Dear Release Team,

I would like to upload the current experimental version of gnome-panel
to unstable. In 3.14 the API was changed significantly, and the library
was renamed from libpanelapplet-4.0 to libpanel-applet. Thus all reverse
dependencies need porting.

Applets that used gnome-panel's gconf functionality to store their
settings will not work with new version and need to be ported to gsettings
first.

The current status of reverse dependencies in testing is:

command-runner-applet: Fixed version available in experimental, needs upload to 
unstable
gnome-applets: Fixed version available in experimental, needs upload to unstable
gnubiff: Debdiff available (https://bugs.debian.org/789026)
link-monitor-applet: Not ported, maintainer is OK with removing it 
(https://bugs.debian.org/772621)
netspeed: This applet was merged in gnome-applets package, old source should be 
removed
sensors-applet: Not ported, dead upstream, needs removing from testing 
(https://bugs.debian.org/772620)
uim: Debdiff available (https://bugs.debian.org/789025)
workrave: Needs build-dependency change, already committed to packaging git

Ben file:

title = "gnome-panel";
is_affected = .depends ~ "gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0" | .depends ~ 
"gir1.2-panelapplet-5.0" | .depends ~ "libpanel-applet-4-0" | .depends ~ 
"libpanel-applet0";
is_good = .depends ~ "gir1.2-panelapplet-5.0" | .depends ~ "libpanel-applet0";
is_bad = .depends ~ "gir1.2-panelapplet-4.0" | .depends ~ "libpanel-applet-4-0";

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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