Bug#970883: gjs: should not migrate to testing until GNOME Shell 3.38 is ready

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Sep 24 23:06:57 BST 2020


Package: gjs
Version: 1.66.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: maintainer says so
Tags: sid

gjs 1.66.0 uses mozjs78, instead of the old mozj68 used in 1.64.x.

Nobody is likely to have tested gjs 1.66 with GNOME 3.36 very thoroughly,
if at all, so we should not let gjs migrate to testing until we're ready
for GNOME 3.38 to migrate. I'm opening this RC bug to stop that happening.

(I do not have any actual evidence that it doesn't work, but I don't
think the GNOME team either upstream or in Debian is prepared to support
partial upgrades for more than a very brief transitional period. We can
add Breaks if we find that there are concrete things that don't work.)

We can close this bug when the core GNOME packages (-shell,
-session, -settings-daemon, gdm3, -control-center, -desktop and
gsettings-desktop-schemas) are ready in unstable.

    smcv



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