Bug#836207: [gnome-shell] Version 3.21.91 is a development version. It should never been uploaded to the repositories.

[Rene Engelhard]

[ my 0.02 EUR ]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 04:42:03PM +0200, rastersoft wrote:
> that SID is where packages are added for
> being tested before being moved to testing... If a development version
> would never be included in an stable distro,
> why was it uploaded to SID?

Because it will become GNOME 3.22 and that one *is* supposed to be in stretch?
Will be released End of September already. So the release is "just" ~ one month
to go, it's beta and the first rc is ~ 2 weeks away so it's (hopefully) not
that bug in development anymore.

I wondered about this upload, and don't necessarily like it either - but I can
see the point in getting it tested early.

And be realistic: real-life testing doesn't happen in experimental but
unstable and if it gets released and uploaded to unstable it might be too
late and will cause more disruption.

> It is important to note that this made all the extensions available for
> the current stable version of Gnome Shell to not
> work with SID.

So be it. This is sid. (If it breaks Debian-packaged extensions, it
should add Breaks or so, they need to be updated anyway if 2.22 was released
and uploaded.)

Regards,

Rene