On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:48 AM Fabio Valentini decathorpe@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:38 AM Kalev Lember kalevlember@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
As part of gnome-shell 43.alpha (already in rawhide), mutter has bumped its soname from libmutter-10.so.0 to libmutter-11.so.0.
The following packages are still built against libmutter-10.so.0 and need fixing/porting to switch over, or maybe a compat package for the elementary desktop:
elementary-greeter-6.1.0-1.fc37.src.rpm gala-6.3.1-3.fc37.src.rpm gnome-kiosk-42.0-1.fc37.src.rpm wingpanel-3.0.2-4.fc37.src.rpm
(They are all FTBFS currently with new mutter.)
How extensive the API changes are between libmutter-10 and libmutter-11?
Porting the elementary-greeter and gala packages from libmutter-9 to libmutter-10 was comparatively easy (though with some loss of window management functionality), but earlier ports were rather bad and took a long time.
If it's an easy port, we'll probably not need another compat package, but if it will take longer, then it's back to dealing with a compat package. And I'd rather not do that again, because that means backporting stuff from the 43.x branch to keep things working, i.e. patches for compatibility with the latest gsettings-desktop-schemas, or gnome-settings-daemon ...
Florian or Jonas (both CCd now) should be able to answer this better than I can, although I am not sure they are around right now (it's GUADEC in Mexico this week).