Tried to recover a bit after the rush to get GNOME 43 Beta into Ubuntu 22.10 before Feature Freeze
Helped the new proposed Ubuntu Unity official flavor by pushing some updates of their metapackage.
Updated the cairomm packaging and packaged a new source package for cairomm1.16 which is required to package gtkmm 4 (the C++ bindings for GTK 4)
Pushed more of the nautilus-python extension porting to Debian. There are still 4 more Nautilus extensions that I want fixed before I push Nautilus 43 to Unstable. Waiting on the maintainers now; may need to do non-maintainer uploads soon if the maintainers don’t respond.
Ported Tilix’s built-in Nautilus extension to minimally work with Nautilus 43
Completed the big evolution-data-server & related GNOME 43 libraries transition in Ubuntu.
Finished the prep work to do that transition in Debian. I expect it will happen next week.
Briefly helped test the Ubuntu 20.04.5 desktop ISO before its release yesterday.
Other News
Simon has filed bugs for all the packaged GNOME Shell extensions in Debian that need to be adapted for GNOME Shell 43. Debian has a much longer list because Ubuntu intentionally removed most extensions to allow for smoother and faster Ubuntu stable release updates. We will likely push GNOME Shell 43 to Debian Unstable after the evolution-data-server transition is completed. Extensions that aren’t ready will be removed from Testing, as we’ve done for previous major GNOME Shell releases.