Control: tags -1 + confirmed moreinfo On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 00:15 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > thanks to a chat with Julien Cristau, it just came to my knowledge that > GNOME 3.14 in jessie currently doesn’t have any mechanism to install > upgrades (especially security ones). The reason is that gnome-software, > which is used starting from 3.14, was not accepted in jessie.
(Specifically, it was first uploaded less than a month before freeze, is RC-buggy and depends on a new version of a dependency, which is in itself RC-buggy.) > I don’t think we can accept that situation in a stable release. I agree. > Julien made it clear that getting gnome-software into jessie was out of > the realm of possibilities, I agree with that too. :) > so I proposed to reintegrate the > functionality from GNOME 3.12, in the form of a patch to > gnome-settings-daemon, from which it was removed by upstream. > > The patch is large but not monstrous, because the bulk of the > functionality is in gnome-packagekit, which is (thankfully!) up-to-date > and fully working in jessie. I also pulled all translations from GNOME > 3.12, so this looks good from an l10n point of view. Please feel free to go ahead (with the caveat below) and remove moreinfo as usual once the package has been accepted. > If you are OK with that, I’d also like to know whether to wait for > 3.14.2-1 to have migrated to jessie before uploading. I've aged the current version so that it should migrate in tonight's britney run. Uploading tomorrow should be fine. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
