We are 4 weeks from Transition Freeze and here's an update: - Most of GNOME 48 Beta is in Testing or just waiting a few more days to age before reaching Testing - I did a delayed NMU for fast-float which will allow us to upload the new vte2.91, gnome-terminal, and ptyxis to Unstable in a few days - librsvg 2.59.90 managed to build on mips64el. I think this was luck since other packages are still affected by https://bugs.debian.org/1093200
- tinysparql (renamed tracker) was accepted into Experimental. However, I decided to keep using the tracker-miners name for now instead of renaming it to localsearch to match the new upstream rename. We need to do more testing but we may be able to do the tinysparql 3.8 transition soon for Trixie. We may stay on the 3.8 series for Trixie because some other distros are hesitant about this change in 3.9: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/localsearch/-/merge_requests/579 - I packaged Evince 48 Alpha but ended up having the ftpmasters reject it from Debian NEW because it had regressions compared to Evince 46. Evince upstream is not being maintained well which is why the Papers fork exists. I don't see a point to a GTK4 version of Evince and a GTK4 version of it doesn't actually exist anyway. We can discuss the Papers app more in a separate thread. - We haven't done any work yet to package the new Adwaita fonts. There was an idea to build the Adwaita Sans font from the fonts-inter source: https://bugs.debian.org/1093547 That wouldn't work for Adwaita Mono now because fonts-iosevka isn't in Debian. But we never ended up using Adobe Source Code Pro which had been GNOME's default Mono font since 2019. - Speaking of fonts, we'll probably swap Cantarell to the variable version. You'll need to log out and log back in after updating the font package (which is required any time you update your UI font). https://bugs.debian.org/1095147 - The current blockers for getting GNOME Shell 48 into Unstable are: + https://bugs.debian.org/1096037 fixing Mutter autopkgtests + Significantly reducing the number of packaged GNOME Shell extensions that aren't ready for GNOME Shell 48: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-48 - It is expected that GNOME Shell 48 Beta or RC won't be completely smooth. Getting it to more users sooner who can report detailed bugs upstream will help us get a smoother 48.1. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
