Bug#649648: transition: gnome-desktop3

[Michael Biebl]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

Hi,

on our road to GNOME 3.2, we'd like to start the gnome-desktop3
transition now.
The libgnome-desktop library had a soname bump
libgnome-desktop-3.so.0 → libgnome-desktop-3.so.2.

Packages build-depending on libgnome-desktop-3-dev:

cheese
eog
evolution
gnome-control-center
gnome-panel
gnome-screensaver
gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-shell
nautilus
nautilus-open-terminal

All those packages can be binNMUed.
I test built those packages against libgnome-desktop-3-dev 3.2.1-2, and
the all build fine aside from evolution, which currently FTBFS for other
reasons. I've filed a bug for that [1].

We have three other packages dependending on libgnome-desktop-3-0:

tracker-miner-evolution
evolution-rss
evolution-exchange

This is due to evolution-shell-3.0.pc having Requires: gnome-desktop-3.0
in its pkgconfig file. It looks like this dependency can be marked as
private, so I filed [2]. This means once we have a fixed evolution
package, we can binNMU those three packages (in advance) so they drop
the libgnome-desktop-3-0 dep.

Would be great if we can start the transition as soon as possible.

Michael,
on behalf of the Debian GNOME team.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649645
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649646


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash