unblock: gnome-remote-desktop/48.1-4

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Jul 10 18:44:51 BST 2025


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On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 at 10:26:27 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>[ Reason ]
>
>Avoid regressions on platforms where Vulkan works but VA-API doesn't,
>notably Raspberry Pi (<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2115956>)
>
>[ Impact ]
>
>If Mesa is updated as requested in #1109007, and g-r-d is not updated,
>then g-r-d will only work on machines where VA-API initializes
>successfully.

Proposed version now uploaded.

>A functionally equivalent version is available in experimental, with no
>indication of problems. I'll smoke-test the proposed version on a trixie
>GNOME system (enable remote desktop on machine under test, connect RDP
>client from another machine) before uploading.

Manual testing was successful.

>There is a pre-existing problem with a flaky
>test that intermittently fails (I'll report a separate bug), and I was
>unlucky enough to see the test failure during my first attempt to test
>this, but it does not appear to be related to this change.

Reported as #1109043.

     smcv



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