Source: gtk4 Version: 4.16.5+ds-1 The Debian Release Team has proposed that the initial freeze in preparation to release Debian Trixie be a freeze of "udeb producing packages." [1]
gtk4 produces udebs in anticipation that they will eventually be needed by the Debian installer. However, the installer still uses gtk2 and I don't believe anyone is actively working on porting it to gtk3 or gtk4 now. See https://bugs.debian.org/1070706 which points out that the gtk4 udeb is unusable currently. Therefore, to avoid needing special treatment from the Debian Release team, I suggest that we could stop building libgtk-4-1-udeb. Maybe we could resume building it early in the forky release cycle if that helps? Other alternatives: - Keep building the udebs in experimental to avoid needing to go through binary NEW later. However, I think this would be awkward to manage since I think it is likely for us to stage other gtk4 work in Experimental. - If the Release Team can easily exclude libgtk-4-1-udeb from their *udeb release block, then we probably don't need to do any action here at all now [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2024/11/msg00079.html Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
