Bug#1050025: mutter: non-upstreamed workaround for serial mismatch in Wayland drag-and-drop

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 9:03 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: mutter
> Version: 44.3-5
> Severity: normal
> Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2216
>
> There is a non-upstreamed workaround in mutter for
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2216. This is technical debt.
>
> This appears to be a workaround for a GTK bug, fixed in 3.24.31 and 4.5.1,
> which are both in Debian 12. Can we drop the mutter workaround?
>
> On the upstream issue, Marco mentions "the usage of flatpaks/snaps out
> there that may not include super-updated gtk versions" which could be a
> reason to keep the workaround for some reasonable grace period, but we
> shouldn't keep non-upstreamable workarounds hanging around forever.

Simon, I have dropped this patch in my Mutter 45 packaging.

I figure we can keep the patch for Debian 12 since it's there and not
causing problems, but we can drop it for Ubuntu 23.10 and Debian
Trixie.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha