Desktop Team Updates - Monday 4th April 2022

  • Additions to the Jammy Release Notes
  • Testing and reporting of the webkit/mesa bug affecting my Intel graphics
  • Wrote a blog post about how to easily install a bunch of .deb’s like I needed to do to verify the mesa regression
  • Ended up taking Seb’s advice to reduce parallel builds for webkit2gtk on amd64 since 2.36.0 hadn’t built successfully for a week.
  • Completed the libgweather4 transition in Debian.
  • Removed the GNOME Documents app from Ubuntu 22.04
  • Filed a Feature Freeze Exception for libarchive 3.6.0
  • Packaged the GTK4 library of colord-gtk (needed for gnome-control-center 42 which Simon has uploaded to Debian experimental)
  • Looked briefly at gnome-control-center 42 and realized the Snap permission integration for the Applications panel no longer builds after the GTK4 switch. I believe Ubuntu is currently the only distro to enable this but I think it would be useful for at least Debian. (It does not add a dependency on snap.)
  • Mentoring a new Debian contributor with packaging libshumate (which is a map display library, basically libchamplain modernized for GTK4)
  • Misc. bugfixes and package updates
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