GNOME updates 2024-07-03

[bobby285271]

Things done

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[bobby285271]

@ofborg build gnome.gnome-shell gnome.gnome-control-center
@ofborg test gnome

[jtojnar]

Thanks. Changes look okay, here is a few things I noticed:

epiphany: 46.1 -> 46.2

No arrow.

gexiv2: 0.14.2 → 0.14.3

Deprecation of two functions is weard in a patch version but probably should not be an obstacle for backport.

gnome.gnome-control-center: 46.2 → 46.3

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/51bf36ac68051aaf183c1aa0b45b8af7cc479c70 sounds like an easy way to skip some tests, maybe upstream should use auto features so that distros can turn it into hard dependency.

Also the Xvfb check sounds like maybe we no longer need to use xvfb-run.

gnome.gnome-initial-setup: 46.2 → 46.3
I don't know why we need to set PKG_CONFIG_SYSTEMD_SYSUSERSDIR so I just dropped it,
it looks like the prefix is properly replaced in upstream's meson.build via pkgconfig_define.

👍 Looks like it used prefix from the start. Maybe we had a systemd version that used a different variable at the time – I recall there were some issues regarding this in the past.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/compare/46.2...46.3.1
I am mostly confused by b9b5f9a, actually I don't think we need jasmine-gjs in 46.x.

I think that is used by tests, which we do not run, so it is not relevant for now. Also, you are right, GNOME Shell only switched to Jasmine from jsUnit last month, so the commit message is probably unchanged from the cherry-picked commit.

Also looks like it removes gtk3 and libstartup_notification dependencies: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/27b9985da3f4e098e1bb9aa27a15d9151af7efc4

[jtojnar]

Add comment it is for Xvfb?

Interestingly, it has been used since 3.29 (PR for dbusmock inclusion pending).

[jtojnar]

Thanks.