On 2026-11-08 11:20:01 +0100, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > > On 05/10/2026 11:45, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > > > Once packages are in Unstable, we will need 2 types of hints from the > > > Release Team to complete the transition: > > > - A hint to migrate the uploaded packages together. Britney has so far > > > been unable to calculate this on its own. My guess is this is because > > > of the widespread use of versioned dependencies from extensions on > > > gnome-shell which makes it easy for users to see which packaged > > > extensions will break when upgrading > > > - A hint to remove extensions from Testing that were not updated for > > > GNOME Shell 51 yet. This is the largest removal list for us yet. The > > > porting work is often simple but I don't want to be personally > > > responsible for the growing list of extensions that I don't use. We > > > filed bugs for affected packages 2 weeks before filing this transition > > > bug. We can provide a full list as a reply to this bug when the > > > transition is otherwise ready to migrate. The list will basically be > > > the same as the open bugs from: > > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-51 > > I propose that we ignore https://bugs.debian.org/1151665 . > Unfortunately, the Nvidia driver situation in Debian is not great. I > think it's helpful to keep the bug as RC status so that some people > might see the bug and delay upgrading their Debian installs. > > These are my suggestions for hints to finish the transition: > > ignore-rc-bugs 1151665 mutter/51.0-3 > hint gnome-kiosk/51.0-2 gnome-shell/51.0-3 > gnome-shell-extensions/51.0-2 mutter/51.0-3
Hint for mutter added. Cheers > > I think these will migrate automatically when the other parts migrate: > gnome-shell-frippery/51.0-1 xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/51.0-2 > > Ultimately, only a few extensions needed to be removed from Testing > and this has been done already: > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gnome-shell-51.html > > Thank you, > Jeremy Bícha > -- Sebastian Ramacher
