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If one of these libraries breaks its GIR API in future, then upgrading packages unrelated to gnome-shell might pull in the newer version, causing gnome-shell to crash when it gets a newer GIR API that is incompatible with its expectations. For example, this seems to be happening in Debian testing at the moment, when GNOME Shell 41.4 imports GWeather and can get version 4.0 instead of the version 3.0 that it expected. Adding explicit API versions at the time the newer version is released is too late, because that will still let the newer version of the GIR API break pre-existing GNOME Shell packages. Prevent similar crashes in future by making the desired versions explicit. This is done for all third-party libraries except GLib, similar to the common practice in Python code; if GLib breaks API, then that will be a disruptive change to the whole GLib/GObject ecosystem, regardless. Gvc, Meta, Shell, Shew, St are not included because they're private (only exist in a non-default search path entry). Clutter and Cogl *are* included, because we need to import the fork of them that comes with Meta, as opposed to their deprecated standalone versions. Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1008926 Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2261>
GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience.
For more information about GNOME Shell, including instructions on how to build GNOME Shell from source and how to get involved with the project, see the project wiki.
Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system. Please refer to the Schedule wiki page to see the supported versions.
Contributing
To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell.
Commit messages should follow the GNOME commit message guidelines. We require an URL to either an issue or a merge request in each commit.
Default branch
The default development branch is main. If you still have a local
checkout under the old name, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
License
GNOME Shell is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.