** Description changed: Availability ============ - Co-maintained with Debian GNOME. We would be in sync except Debian is in release freeze with GNOME 3.22. Built for all supported architectures. + Co-maintained with Debian GNOME. Built for all supported architectures. + + Changes from Debian + ------------------- + - Depend on gnome-session which due to package split now contains only the session files + - debian/patches/ubuntu-lightdm-user-switching.patch: + + Allow user switching when using LightDM. (GNOME wasn't interested in LightDM support before) + - debian/patches/ubuntu_lock_on_suspend.patch + + Respect Ubuntu's lock-on-suspend setting. + - debian/gnome-shell.gsettings-override: + + Replace firefox-esr with firefox + Ubuntu is also at GNOME 3.24 but Debian is still at 3.22 because of Stretch Release Freeze. Rationale ========= Ubuntu Desktop will be switching from Unity to gnome-shell as the default desktop. Security ======== No known security issues https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gnome-shell https://launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+cve Quality assurance ================= - Please subscribe Ubuntu Desktop Bugs to this package. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=gnome-shell https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A%20gnome-shell Dependencies ============ mutter (Previously in main) gdm3 (Previously in main) colord-gtk (Previously in main) gnome-control-center (Previously in main) gnome-user-docs (Previously in main) gjs (LP: #1683989) caribou (LP: #1685867) + There are several other "optional" dependencies that we can drop to get this into main sooner while they are reviewed or handled later: + chrome-gnome-shell + switcheroo-control + gnome-user-guide (The GNOME upstream version of ubuntu-docs) + iio-sensor-proxy + gnome-backgrounds + telepathy-logger (previously in main, dropped to suggests in Debian exp. packaging) + adwaita-icon-theme-full (source already in main) + Standards compliance ==================== 3.9.8 Maintenance =========== - Actively developed upstream https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell Debian packaging uses svn, but we're hoping to convert to git this year (which will allow for Ubuntu branches): https://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-shell/unstable/debian/ Background information ====================== There are a few packaging changed proposed in the following MR https://code.launchpad.net/~ken-vandine/gnome-shell/ubuntu/+merge/322970
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