Bug#933548: transition: gnome-desktop3

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 30/09/2019 12:49, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Adding a bunch of CCs for usual suspects as it seems noone got a copy
> of the go-ahead.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 09:42:12PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> [...]
>> Let's get on with this.
> 
> Laney pointed out that to do gnome-desktop3 standalone we'd
> need this patch:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/commit/f9a7718dda9641bf3750faba789edd701dfff5da
> 
> 
>>From #debian-release :
> 
> <ah> elbrus: hi. Would it be ok to entagle some of the gnome transitions? eg.
> atleast mutter/gnome-shell and gnome-desktop3 together. Otherwise we'll
> need sourceful uploads to make old gnome-shell work with new
> gnome-desktop3 (and who knows what else)....
> <pochu> ah: yes that should be fine
> 
> 
> I'm thus thinking about doing this (unless someone else volunteers):
> * upload glib2.0 to unstable (to unblock mutter)
> * upload gnome-desktop3, mutter and gnome-shell
> * Ask bungie-desktop people to upload their exp version to unstable.
> 
> If anyone thinks there's a reason to do anything differently, please
> speak up ASAP!

Yes, let's do all these (e-d-s, gnome-desktop3, mutter, and even libgweather if
the rdeps are fine with that) as we have done in the past.

Cheers,
Emilio