Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 8th January 2024

vanvugt · January 8, 2024, 7:30am

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~~ month’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 11th December 2023

vanvugt · January 8, 2024, 7:34am

Caught up on 3 weeks of holiday bug triage as well as this week. Backlog stats are here.
Over the holidays I helped to resolve a stutter regression that appeared in mutter 45.1.
Some old branches also landed over the holidays: mutter!2620, gnome-shell!1905, mutter!1908.
Packaged BlueZ 5.71 for Noble. That in itself was very simple but some systemd changes going into Noble at the same time caused headaches.
Fixed a pile of existing merge requests since mutter CI started working again over the holidays.

jbicha · January 8, 2024, 9:42pm

Reuploaded the proposed mutter 45.2 SRU for Ubuntu 23.10 after the previous version was reverted to handle the stutter regression.
Spent time investigating GNOME Software’s failure to show any .deb packages in Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian Testing before Matthias Klumpp discovered the fix.
Landed the development version of webkit2gtk in Ubuntu 24.04 after the Debian maintainer was able to fix the riscv64 build.
nautilus-sendto is back in Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian Testing. It had been removed earlier because it is no longer used by Nautilus, but other things still can use it.
Formally moved the colord .deb package to team maintenance under the FreeDesktop team.
Updated the packaging for pulseaudio & rhythmbox, motivated by packaging changes in the lirc library
Identified the fix for duplicity’s unnecessary dependency on python3-setuptools-scm.
Lots of work going through the remaining packages depending on webkit2gtk 4.0. We aim to stop building the webkit2gtk 4.0 API before Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is released, which is a similar timeline as Fedora. 61% done according to the transition tracker. Much of this work hasn’t landed yet since it is waiting for Debian maintainers to review and upload the proposed changes.
Misc. packaging of GNOME 45.3 updates

Other News

Amberol and Railway are now available as .deb packages in Debian and Ubuntu, bringing the total number of Rust+libadwaita apps available there to 7.
Loupe was uploaded to Debian Experimental but we still need to fix a dependency issue before it will be installable and more widely available.