Bug#1150014: transition: gnome-shell 51

[Jeremy Bícha]

> On 05/10/2026 11:45, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > Once packages are in Unstable, we will need 2 types of hints from the
> > Release Team to complete the transition:
> > - A hint to migrate the uploaded packages together. Britney has so far
> > been unable to calculate this on its own. My guess is this is because
> > of the widespread use of versioned dependencies from extensions on
> > gnome-shell which makes it easy for users to see which packaged
> > extensions will break when upgrading
> > - A hint to remove extensions from Testing that were not updated for
> > GNOME Shell 51 yet. This is the largest removal list for us yet. The
> > porting work is often simple but I don't want to be personally
> > responsible for the growing list of extensions that I don't use. We
> > filed bugs for affected packages 2 weeks before filing this transition
> > bug. We can provide a full list as a reply to this bug when the
> > transition is otherwise ready to migrate. The list will basically be
> > the same as the open bugs from:
> > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-gnome-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=gnome-shell-51

I propose that we ignore https://bugs.debian.org/1151665 .
Unfortunately, the Nvidia driver situation in Debian is not great. I
think it's helpful to keep the bug as RC status so that some people
might see the bug and delay upgrading their Debian installs.

These are my suggestions for hints to finish the transition:

ignore-rc-bugs 1151665 mutter/51.0-3
hint gnome-kiosk/51.0-2 gnome-shell/51.0-3
gnome-shell-extensions/51.0-2 mutter/51.0-3

I think these will migrate automatically when the other parts migrate:
gnome-shell-frippery/51.0-1 xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/51.0-2

Ultimately, only a few extensions needed to be removed from Testing
and this has been done already:
https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gnome-shell-51.html

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha