Bug#838903: command-runner-applet: Incompatible with upcoming gnome-panel 3.22

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Control: severity -1 serious

Dear maintainer,

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 01:01:04PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> In the upcoming gnome-panel 3.22 release, support for GIR applets [1] and for
> out-of-process applets in general [2], has been dropped.
>
> This means command-runner-applet will no longer work with that new version.

gnome-panel 3.24 has been just accepted into unstable, see #867713.

This means that command-runner-applet needs to be removed from testing, to
make it possible for new gnome-panel to migrate. I am bumping the severity
accordingly.

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Bug#838903: command-runner-applet: Incompatible with upcoming gnome-panel 3.22

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi again Marcin,

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 04:39:11PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > > Apart from that, a sentence about this should probably be dropped into
> > > future release notes.
> >
> > Which release notes do you mean? This will definitely be documented in the
> > gnome-panel changelog and release announcement.
> >
>
> stretch release notes. I think there is a section about removed/replaced
> packages.

As the gnome-panel transition did not happen before the transitions freeze,
Stretch will ship with gnome-panel 3.20, and your package can be kept.

But you may consider adding a NEWS entry saying that the users can switch
to the new applet which is part of gnome-applets.

I plan to do the gnome-panel transition early in Buster cycle (when the
transitions are unfrozen).

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Bug#838903: command-runner-applet: Incompatible with upcoming gnome-panel 3.22

[Marcin Owsiany]

2016-09-26 13:14 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Shachnev :

> Hi Marcin,
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:10:10PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > Deleting in favour sounds good. Do you know if gnome-applets is
> guaranteed
> > (by virtue of depeds or recommends) to be auto-installed on an upgrade
> of a
> > system which has command-runner-applet installed? If not, then perhaps
> > command-runner-applet should be turned into a transitional meta-package
> > which depends on gnome-applets?
>
> gnome-panel recommends gnome-applets, so most users of gnome-panel have
> gnome-applets installed too.
>

OK


> I do not think that turning command-runner-applet into a transitional
> package
> will make sense: the new applet has a different name, and users will need
> to
> add it to the panel manually.


Well, then /usr/share/doc/command-runner-applet/Debian.NEWS could mention
that. But maybe it's an overkill.


> > Apart from that, a sentence about this should probably be dropped into
> > future release notes.
>
> Which release notes do you mean? This will definitely be documented in the
> gnome-panel changelog and release announcement.
>

stretch release notes. I think there is a section about removed/replaced
packages.

Marcin

Bug#838903: command-runner-applet: Incompatible with upcoming gnome-panel 3.22

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Marcin,

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:10:10PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Deleting in favour sounds good. Do you know if gnome-applets is guaranteed
> (by virtue of depeds or recommends) to be auto-installed on an upgrade of a
> system which has command-runner-applet installed? If not, then perhaps
> command-runner-applet should be turned into a transitional meta-package
> which depends on gnome-applets?

gnome-panel recommends gnome-applets, so most users of gnome-panel have
gnome-applets installed too.

I do not think that turning command-runner-applet into a transitional package
will make sense: the new applet has a different name, and users will need to
add it to the panel manually.

> Apart from that, a sentence about this should probably be dropped into
> future release notes.

Which release notes do you mean? This will definitely be documented in the
gnome-panel changelog and release announcement.

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Dmitry Shachnev


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Bug#838903: command-runner-applet: Incompatible with upcoming gnome-panel 3.22

[Marcin Owsiany]

Deleting in favour sounds good. Do you know if gnome-applets is guaranteed
(by virtue of depeds or recommends) to be auto-installed on an upgrade of a
system which has command-runner-applet installed? If not, then perhaps
command-runner-applet should be turned into a transitional meta-package
which depends on gnome-applets?

Apart from that, a sentence about this should probably be dropped into
future release notes.

Bug#838903: command-runner-applet: Incompatible with upcoming gnome-panel 3.22

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Package: command-runner-applet
Version: 0.4-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

In the upcoming gnome-panel 3.22 release, support for GIR applets [1] and for
out-of-process applets in general [2], has been dropped.

This means command-runner-applet will no longer work with that new version.

The potential fix would be to port the applet to C, however I am not suggesting
that as there is already a Command applet in C available, part of gnome-applets
since 3.20 release [3]. It looks like it implements the same functionality as
command-runner-applet, and is more configurable.

So I think the best thing we can do is removing command-runner-applet from
Stretch, in favour of the better alternative.

[1]: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-panel/commit/?id=6ea665180940d292
[2]: 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-flashback-list/2016-July/msg0.html
[3]: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-applets/tree/command/

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Dmitry Shachnev


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