Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse.
Reduced the number of open merge requests for the GNOME team on Salsa from 84 to 36. (15 of the remaining are marked Draft.)
Alessandro began the poppler 25.01 transition for Ubuntu 25.04
Sponsored Alessandro’s xdg-desktop-portal-gnome fix into Debian and Ubuntu 25.04 to fix slow startup of apps with GTK4 4.17
Worked with Alessandro to sync gnome-themes-extra, dropping the Ubuntu delta
Basically synced gnome-video-effects now that it (and the Cheese app) are in universe
Enabled build tests for the Debian/Ubuntu enchant packaging
My merge request to make dh_auto_test for meson packages verbose by default was accepted so it should be in the next debhelper release. This is my second code contribution to debhelper.
Split evolution-ews into a separate package so that the parts that don’t need Evolution can be pre-installed, improving Microsoft 365 support in apps that use GNOME Online Accounts like GNOME Calendar and GNOME Contacts.
Packaged mutter 48 Alpha for Experimental so that it can clear Debian’s NEW queue early
Packaged libadwaita 1.7 Alpha for Experimental so that it doesn’t block packaging GNOME 48 Beta apps
Miscellaneous other package updates
In other news…
gstreamer 1.25.1 was released and Mark Leeman has begun packaging it for Debian Experimental. We expect to include gstreamer 1.26 in Ubuntu 25.04. It may make it into Debian 13 also.
gstreamer 1.25.1 was released and Mark Leeman has begun packaging it for Debian Experimental. We expect to include gstreamer 1.26 in Ubuntu 25.04. It may make it into Debian 13 also.