The SRU team discussed the GNOME MRE today.
@raof is planning to generate a list of packages that are in-scope based on the above discussion.
There are a couple of exceptional cases in relation to GNOME microrelease updates:
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We don’t consider that Vala will be included as part of the GNOME MRE. Regardless, the Vala situation is special as it’s generally necessary to also rebuild reverse build dependencies for a Vala SRU to have any effect. If Vala microrelease updates are desired, this will need to be justified and requested independently (whether as a one-off or a standing documented case).
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Microrelease updates to gnome-shell are at risk of regressing packages providing gnome-shell extensions as we discovered in the case of LP: #1892245. Going forward, we’d like to see suitable mitigations for this type of regression before we publish gnome-shell microrelease updates, such as through thorough testing of reverse dependencies.
Further discussion welcome.