Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 2nd September 2024

[vanvugt]

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.

Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 26th August 2024

[vanvugt]

• Lots of bug triage and user support in Launchpad and upstreams. Backlog stats are here.
• The lost KMS properties fix landed upstream in 46.5.
• Finished verifying the gnome-shell lock screen crash fix. Although it has become very difficult to reproduce lately. Now released to Noble updates.
• Retargeted triple buffering to GNOME 48 instead of trying to upstream it in 47 at the last minute. Actually upstream wants it in 47 more than we do. But recent code reviews are both too numerous to resolve quickly and too destabilizing if implemented fully. So I’m not going to do that so close to release. There are still no known bugs to worry about and the distro patch for 24.10 only needs to be supported until EOL in July 2025.
• Uploaded a Mutter SRU for Noble (which then got merged into this one) to address unreliable colour profiles (including night light?) and laptop cursor stutter.
• Tweaked DisplayLink zero-copy import error handling.
• Dropped my attempt to upstream the Raspberry Pi X11 corruption fix that was needed to get 24.04 out the door. For 25.04 it’s maybe not needed, or easier to patch Mesa if still needed.
• Relaxed the gnome-shell-common dependencies for the 47.0 release. Also spent a while assessing options for automating it, without success.
• Proposed a fix for the current top gnome-shell crasher in Noble.
• Fixed more bugs in the draft frame clock refactor for GNOME 48.
• It’s a short week and a long weekend for me so I’m posting this early.

[jbicha]

• The Rust GNOME 47 transition has finished for Ubuntu 24.10 and is expected to migrate to Debian Testing in a few days
• The Feature Freeze Exception to build a few more libraries with improved sysprof support was approved
   
• Cherrypicked a gst-plugins-base fix for the rust-gstreamer-video s390x test failure I reported
• Cherrypicked a fix for orc failing to build on ppc64el
   
• Removed our purple background patch for gnome-console since we no longer intend for gnome-console to be the Ubuntu Desktop default terminal app in the future
• Removed an unused dependency from our gst-plugins-bad1.0 packaging to allow libiptcdata to migrate out of oracular-proposed
• Filed several removal bugs after checking that Ubuntu’s removal tool that basically copies removals from Debian Unstable appears to not handle arch-specific removals.
   
• Worked with Simon McVittie to update Debian’s gnome-core metapackage
• Created blocker bugs to more easily show what needs to be handled for the new gtk4 & gjs to reach Debian Unstable
• Updated the adwaita-icon-theme package after realizing that the new adwaita-icon-theme-legacy dependency is not required
   
• Miscellaneous package updates
• Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS was released yesterday and people using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS are already receiving notifications of the available major upgrade