I'm not seeing a compelling reason to switch to 3.24 and the newer vte other than the version bump.
If your argument is that after this revert, both gnome-terminal and vte are effectively identical feature-wise as what we have in the archive right now, then you're not introducing or removing features, in which case you don't need a Feature Freeze Exception in the first place. If this change does introduce/remove features to gnome-terminal and vte, please list them in a readable format (not an upstream git log/diff). I think the pcre2 MIR could do with an API diff between pcre3 and pcre2. Your massive patch suggests that the two APIs are very much different and that it's not something we can do as a typical transition, making the need for both of them to live in main together much clearer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666264 Title: FFe: Update gnome-terminal to 3.24 and vte to 0.48 Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: gnome-terminal and vte are still at their 3.20 (and 0.44) versions because they now hard-depend on pcre2, but the pcre2 MIR (LP: #1636666) has stalled because there is already one version of pcre in main and it would be a major task to convert all of main to use pcre2. So I reverted 3 commits for gnome-terminal and 5 for vte to make that MIR less urgent. I am concerned about the long-term maintainability of this approach - the vte patch is over 1600 lines. gnome-terminal 3.22 and vte 0.46 have been tested in the GNOME3 Staging PPA for yakkety and zesty for months. I am not aware of any issues from that. This is slightly different since I haven't tested those versions without pcre2 until this weekend. The development cycle for gnome-terminal and vte has been fairly quiet so I believe it's safe to go ahead and update gnome-terminal to 3.23.90 and vte to 0.47.90. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/log https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/log The packages are currently available for testing at https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+packages?field.series_filter=zesty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1666264/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
