On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:38 AM Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> 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 ...