Bug#1132301: transition: gnome-shell 50

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 12/06/2026 11:56, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> I believe the transition will need a hint, since every GNOME Shell
> transition in Debian and Ubuntu for years has needed a hint. My guess is
> that the versioned dependencies from extensions to gnome-shell are too
> complex for britney to automatically handle.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 04:40 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> Control: tags -1 + pending
>>
>> On Fri, 05 Jun 2026 at 17:07:23 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 11:23:28 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>>>> We now have GNOME Shell 50 in experimental
>>>
>>> Go ahead.
>>
>> This looks ready to migrate, I think we are just waiting for
>> gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast (1 day remaining) at which point
>> the whole group should be able to migrate:
>>
>> * gdm3
>> * gnome-kiosk
>> * gnome-session
>> * gnome-shell
>> * mutter
>> * gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast
>> * gnome-shell-frippery
>>
>> The release team could apply some age-days to
>> gnome-shell-extension-easyscreencast if you want to get this done.
>>
>> gnome-remote-desktop already migrated, which surprised me, because it
>> has a versioned Breaks on gdm3 (but of course it's possible to install
>> the new g-r-d onto a minimal system, just not onto a complete GNOME
>> desktop). With hindsight, perhaps we should have given it an
>> artificial/unnecessary B-D on libgdm-dev to force them to migrate
>> together?

This transition is done now. Closing.

Cheers,
Emilio