I believe the transition will need a hint, since every GNOME Shell transition in Debian and Ubuntu for years has needed a hint. My guess is that the versioned dependencies from extensions to gnome-shell are too complex for britney to automatically handle.
Thank you, Jeremy Bícha On Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 04:40 Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + pending > > On Fri, 05 Jun 2026 at 17:07:23 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >>On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 11:23:28 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > >>>We now have GNOME Shell 50 in experimental > > > >Go ahead. > > This looks ready to migrate, I think we are just waiting for > gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast (1 day remaining) at which point > the whole group should be able to migrate: > > * gdm3 > * gnome-kiosk > * gnome-session > * gnome-shell > * mutter > * gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast > * gnome-shell-frippery > > The release team could apply some age-days to > gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast if you want to get this done. > > gnome-remote-desktop already migrated, which surprised me, because it > has a versioned Breaks on gdm3 (but of course it's possible to install > the new g-r-d onto a minimal system, just not onto a complete GNOME > desktop). With hindsight, perhaps we should have given it an > artificial/unnecessary B-D on libgdm-dev to force them to migrate > together? > > Thanks, > smcv >
