On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 8:38 AM Tobias Frost <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jermemy, > > the transition workflow asks to bump the severity to RC only after the > transition has started [1] . Please respect the estabilished procedures and > don't create a artifical pressure. > > Thanks. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
I think the situation here is a bit different than FTBFS bugs which are the most common type of transition blocker bug. If these extensions are not either fixed or removed from Testing, it is impossible for gnome-shell to migrate to Testing. Waiting until the new gnome-shell version is in unstable has 2 side effects: - Debian reports that the package will be automatically removed, but the date is wrong; the actual removal will happen manually much sooner. - The Release Team needs to manually remove any packages that aren't either fixed or auto-removed already, so that's extra work for them. You're the only person who has complained when I've done this. I expect that I'll file the transition bug Monday morning; it's a simpler transition than some in the past so I expect approval may be quick. I think it could be less work for everyone if you updated your package instead of complaining about the bug severity. I'm sorry that you feel stress from the RC bug. My intent is to send a friendly reminder to extension maintainers to update their packages to avoid removal from Testing. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
