GNOME 43.alpha builds in rawhide
Hi all,
I'm back from my vacation and taking over GNOME builds and coordination
again this cycle (David King handled GNOME 42 builds during the last cycle).
Upstream is busily releasing 43.alpha and we need to get our downstream
builds done as well. We have a f37-gnome side tag for builds, which
should help make sure we keep rawhide breakage minimum (we can verify
that things roughly work before merging it).
This cycle the complicating elements seem to be:
- continued porting from gtk 3 to gtk 4
- libsoup to libsoup3 transition
- gnome-desktop3 and gnome-desktop4 soname bumps
The last two in particular affect much more consumers than just GNOME so
we need to be a bit careful here. Michael already filed a Change
Proposal for libsoup3 and it should hopefully get approved by FESCo
soon: https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/2829
Once we have FESCo approval for libsoup3 transition, I intend to go full
steam ahead with GNOME 43.alpha and libsoup3 builds. I have already done
a few in the side tag, but the rest is so tangled up that I think it's
easier to wait a bit.
If you are helping with builds, please use 'fedpkg build --target
f37-gnome'. There's no need to use it if the update really is stand
alone, but if it's tangled up in the rest of the GNOME update in some
way, please use the side tag so we can ensure we don't break rawhide.
Thanks for attention and thanks for the help!
Kalev