Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 27th January 2025

  • Prepared emoji chooser updates for GTK3 and GTK4 for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 24.10
  • Pushed the latest glib development release, 2.83.3, to Ubuntu 25.04 (and made sure it migrated)
  • Packaged gnome-characters 48 Alpha for Ubuntu 25.04 and Debian Experimental. This includes the new Unicode 16 emoji but requires glib >= 2.83 which means we will not be able to backport this to existing stable Ubuntu releases.
     
  • Pushed the latest webkit2gtk development release to Ubuntu 25.04
  • Updated gedit libraries (mostly in Debian NEW currently) needed to update gedit and the app formerly known as latexila or gnome-latex but now named enter-tex
  • Enabled libsecret to provide its own bash-completion file in coordination with Debian’s bash-completion maintainer
     
  • Removed libchamplain on armhf as a solution to fallout from the 64-bit time transition.
  • Removed freerdp2 from Debian in favor of freerdp3 and almost removed it from Ubuntu 25.04 (we just need to get weston to migrate out of -proposed).
  • Contributed to the removal of the unmaintained gnome-dictionary from Debian and from the Snap Store
     
  • Discussions with the Evince maintainer on what Evince 48 Beta will look like.
  • Packaged Evince 48 Alpha but I’m waiting until the Beta release to upload it
     
  • Allesandro finished the poppler 25.01 transition for Ubuntu 25.04 and began it for Debian
  • Updated scribus in Debian to the latest stable release to fix the build with poppler 25.01. Also got scribus back into Debian Testing.
  • Miscellaneous package updates
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