Bug#771735: Pre-approval request for gnome-settings-daemon/3.14.2-2
Control: tags -1 + confirmed moreinfo
On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 00:15 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> thanks to a chat with Julien Cristau, it just came to my knowledge that
> GNOME 3.14 in jessie currently doesn’t have any mechanism to install
> upgrades (especially security ones). The reason is that gnome-software,
> which is used starting from 3.14, was not accepted in jessie.
(Specifically, it was first uploaded less than a month before freeze, is
RC-buggy and depends on a new version of a dependency, which is in
itself RC-buggy.)
> I don’t think we can accept that situation in a stable release.
I agree.
> Julien made it clear that getting gnome-software into jessie was out of
> the realm of possibilities,
I agree with that too. :)
> so I proposed to reintegrate the
> functionality from GNOME 3.12, in the form of a patch to
> gnome-settings-daemon, from which it was removed by upstream.
>
> The patch is large but not monstrous, because the bulk of the
> functionality is in gnome-packagekit, which is (thankfully!) up-to-date
> and fully working in jessie. I also pulled all translations from GNOME
> 3.12, so this looks good from an l10n point of view.
Please feel free to go ahead (with the caveat below) and remove moreinfo
as usual once the package has been accepted.
> If you are OK with that, I’d also like to know whether to wait for
> 3.14.2-1 to have migrated to jessie before uploading.
I've aged the current version so that it should migrate in tonight's
britney run. Uploading tomorrow should be fine.
Regards,
Adam
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