Public bug reported:
Feature Freeze Exception Request
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There are only 2 packages in Ubuntu main that use freerdp2: remmina and
gnome-remote-desktop. It is requested to switch both to freerdp3. Therefore
only one version of freerdp will be in main. freerdp2 will be demoted to
universe since many universe packages use it and are not prepared to switch to
freerdp3.
This also requests updating gdm and gnome-control-center to fully enable
the features of gnome-remote-desktop 46.
Impact
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A headline feature of GNOME 46 is support as a Remote Desktop server without
requiring someone to already be logged in locally ("headless" mode). This
feature requires gnome-remote-desktop 46. gnome-remote-desktop 46 requires
freerdp3.
Impact if this does not happen
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- We would need to patch gnome-control-center to use the older Remote Desktop
panel
- We would need to keep using gnome-remote-desktop 45 instead of 46. The
gnome-remote-desktop upstream maintainers would be unhappy with this decision.
gnome-remote-desktop 45 was tested against Mutter 45. Changes in Mutter 46 may
require changes in gnome-remote-desktop for things to work well although a
simple test showed that basic remote desktop seems to work ok with the mismatch.
Why this did not land sooner
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It required the packaging of a new source package freerdp3. And we had to do
this sooner than Debian. Sorry too many things to do before Feature Freeze and
this did not make it.
Affected Packages
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- gnome-remote-desktop 45 -> 46
- gdm3 45 -> 46 (to support headless mode)
- gnome-control-center (to update the Remote Desktop settings page)
- remmina (build-dependency swap)
- gnome-connections (build-dependency swap): Not required by other changes and
not in Main but makes sense to switch it also
Affected Flavors
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Only Ubuntu Desktop and Edubuntu ships gdm3, gnome-control-center,
gnome-remote-desktop. (Cinnamon 23.04 and daily 23.10 also ships
gnome-control-center but this appears to be a bug since they ship
cinnamon-control-center and is likely already fixed in noble-proposed)
Remmina is included in Ubuntu Desktop, Cinnamon, Kylin, and Unity.
gnome-connections has no reverse dependencies or recommends.
Testing Done
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TBD
** Affects: gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Incomplete
** Affects: remmina (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Incomplete
** Tags: noble update-excuse
** Also affects: gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: remmina (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Title:
[DRAFT] FFe: freedp2 -> freerdp3 in main
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