Desktop Team Updates - Monday 28th March 2022

  • Finished up most of the GNOME 42.0 packaging
  • Worked on getting libnma’s GTK4 library packaged in Debian, needed for gnome-control-center 42
  • Stopped ignoring build test failures for folks. Disabled parallel building for the build tests since it seems to make them pass more reliably.
  • Various fixes for packages failing to build from source
  • Started the eventual removal of the GNOME Documents app from Debian & Ubuntu 22.04.
  • Prepared a list of GNOME Shell extensions we intend to keep as debs in Ubuntu 22.04 so that we can remove the rest. You’ll still be able to install other extensions from GNOME via one of the extensions apps.
  • Updated some of those extensions for GNOME Shell 42
  • Prepared initial packaging for gcr 3.41. Won’t be included in Jammy.
  • Fixed setting a dark wallpaper from the Files app
  • Worked around a meson regression affecting some of our Debian GNOME apps
  • Uploaded gnome-shell 42 to Debian Unstable
  • Some coordination with Ubuntu 22.10 and GNOME 43 draft release schedules
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