Reason: no longer employee
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Otto’s debcraft package is too new for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, but it is in Ubuntu 24.10 and newer.
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Please don’t use AI or LLM when trying to get hired by Canonical. For other tips on getting into Canonical, see today’s Ubuntu blog.
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This also means that the xorg-server source package and all its binary packages will move from main to universe this cycle, right? Yes
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Packaged the latest epiphany releases for Debian and Snap. Helped with identifying regressions which were fixed. Sergio & I got the Epiphany Snap filesize down from 217 MB for the core22 version to 151 MB for the current core24 version now on the stable channel Added Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing” to http…
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Ubuntu 25.04 was released yesterday featuring lots of noteworthy improvements that we have been working on for the past 6 months (actually much longer for some features).
Updated Ubuntu 25.04’s copy of osinfo-db for the Ubuntu 25.04 release and forwarded that update upstream. We’ll do an SRU for … -
Sponsored Sébastien Noel’s packaging of gnome-shell-frippery into Debian Unstable. This package has been on the wishlist almost as long as GNOME 3 has existed. Unfortunately, Debian is entering Soft Freeze now so the package won’t be included in Debian 13. Sponsored Jochen’s work to update Debian’s…
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Enabled support for jpeg-xl by default in Ubuntu Desktop 25.04 after approval from the MIR and Release Teams. Glycin is a new image loader and editor library written in Rust from GNOME. We got an unexpected merge request this week to update Debian’s glycin package to build gir and library packages.…
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Except for sudo-rs 0.2.5 (which was only released 2 days ago), Ubuntu 25.04 does have the latest versions of the things you listed.
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Quirky Quokka
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Finished getting libva into Ubuntu main so that Ubuntu 25.04 could use gnome-remote-desktop 48.0. The last steps were getting approval from the Ubuntu Release Team and updating every Ubuntu desktop flavor metapackage. Uploaded gjs 1.84 to Debian Experimental after cherry-picking a gtk3 fix. However…
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Finished packaging GNOME 48.0 for Debian Testing and Ubuntu 25.04 in time for Ubuntu 25.04 Beta this week. (This was a team effort.) Showtime, a new video player in GNOME Incubator is landing in universe for Ubuntu 25.04 today. To be clear, Showtime will be available for install but is not one of t…
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GIMP 3.0 was released today so I packaged it for Debian and Ubuntu 25.04 gstreamer 1.26.0 was released last week and it’s already in Ubuntu and Debian GNOME Shell 48 RC landed in Debian Testing and Ubuntu 25.04. These are still the only distros (other than Rawhide) where you can get GNOME 48 withou…
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We are no longer considering GNOME Console to be the default terminal app. It doesn’t have enough customizability and it doesn’t have as much momentum in GNOME. I like Ptyxis but Jon has suggested we also look at ghostty. It’s too late to make a change here for Ubuntu 25.04 but it’s something we’ll…
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Yes, there will be a Yaru upload this week for Plucky User Interface Freeze. It’s common for the new GNOME Shell to get pushed to the Ubuntu development release in time for Ubuntu Feature Freeze but the corresponding Yaru update might not happen until User Interface Freeze as long as it doesn’t cri…
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Uploaded GNOME Shell 48 Beta (and related packages) to Debian Unstable after approval from the Debian Release Team and after Daniel made multiple fixes for the autopkgtests Updated several Debian packaged GNOME Shell extensions for GNOME 48. I’d like to stop doing this work myself, but it helped sm…
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Vendored the Papers app as required by current Ubuntu MIR team policy for Rust apps Wrote a manual test plan for Papers since it currently doesn’t have automated tests The MIR for Papers passed the non-security checks but it needs a Ubuntu Security team review before we can switch from Evince to Pa…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 17th February 2025
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I don’t know yet. I have other work I am doing that has higher priority. Of course, Ubuntu’s default font will remain Ubuntu.
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Uploaded GNOME Shell 48 Beta to Ubuntu 25.04. There are lots of pieces to this including updating all packaged GNOME Shell extensions, updating gnome-kiosk, gnome-remote-desktop, and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. This time we needed to update gdm also. Ubuntu 25.04 is the first distro to include GNOME …
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 10th February 2025
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Completed the jpeg-xl 0.11 transition in Ubuntu Removed obsolete packages gnome-devel-docs and vino (not removed from Ubuntu yet) Sponsored the Showtime app (after Matthias Geiger’s review) into the Debian NEW queue. GNOME is expected to switch from Totem to Showtime for GNOME 49 for their default …
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Updated https://appstream.ubuntu.com/ to add Ubuntu 25.04 “plucky” and remove the EOL Ubuntu 23.10 “mantic” Diagnosed and fixed out of space issues on servers powering https://appstream.ubuntu.com/ . Updated internal documentation for this. My gtk4 emoji chooser update was accepted into noble-pr…
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I think you’re mistaken that snaps have to be “official” to be included in an Ubuntu flavor. That’s not a requirement in this policy.
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Prepared emoji chooser updates for GTK3 and GTK4 for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 24.10 Pushed the latest glib development release, 2.83.3, to Ubuntu 25.04 (and made sure it migrated) Packaged gnome-characters 48 Alpha for Ubuntu 25.04 and Debian Experimental. This includes the new Unicode 16 emoji but req…
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Reduced the number of open merge requests for the GNOME team on Salsa from 84 to 36. (15 of the remaining are marked Draft.) Alessandro began the poppler 25.01 transition for Ubuntu 25.04 Sponsored Alessandro’s xdg-desktop-portal-gnome fix into Debian and Ubuntu 25.04 to fix slow startup of apps…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse. Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 13th January 2025.
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The Ubuntu palette is one of the default options but you probably need to click Show All Palettes to see it. Does that answer your concern? The full list of palettes is probably too long but I prefer too many choices here rather than none at all. The GNOME Console app doesn’t allow choosing a diffe…
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Packaged gimp 3 RC 2 which is now available in Ubuntu 25.04 and Debian Testing Packaged pango 1.56. Verifying that autopkgtests pass in Experimental before pushing to Unstable and Ubuntu. Sponsored Alessandro’s gobject-introspection fix to improve how dh_girepository treats version numbers, allowin…
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I also updated my work system to plucky …which allowed me to make use of sbuild’s new unshare backend I was impressed that it was fairly quick by default. It basically works by default without the configuration and maintenance the schroot backend needed. This makes it easier for people new to .deb…
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I personally think Ptyxis is an interesting app and use it myself. I am waiting for the Debian bug blocking https://bugs.debian.org/1083281 to make the app more usable. We have nothing else to announce about Ptyxis. Would you be interested in creating a Snap for Papers? I don’t believe anyone else …
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last 2 weeks. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last time’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 9th December 2024 …
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Uploaded gimp 3 RC 1 to Ubuntu 25.04. It will take some time to complete this transition but I figured I had done enough prep work for it. That work included more build fixes, some NMUs, and some removal bugs since the last time I posted about this. Updated GTK’s emoji chooser for Unicode 16. This …
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last time’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 25th November 2024
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Prepared GNOME 47.2 updates for Ubuntu 25.04 and Debian Unstable Fixed the wxwidgets3.2 build on Ubuntu’s i386 which was blocking 30 packages or so from migrating. Pushed our remaining package differences to Debian so that we can sync bluez. Also joined the Debian Salsa team so that we can push new…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last time’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 21st October 2024
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As part of my GNOME Release team duties, I released GNOME 47.1 Did some of the GNOME 47.1 updates for Debian Unstable. Ubuntu 25.04 is not yet open for most uploads but this is expected very soon. Switched Debian GNOME’s defaults (for the next major stable Debian release next year) from eog to loup…
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Hurricane Milton hit my city last week so that took all my attention
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Google released their color emoji font update for Unicode 16 yesterday. This has already landed in Ubuntu 24.10 and will be backported to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS later. Note that the GTK emoji chooser and the Characters app haven’t been updated yet as they depend on part of the Unicode 16 update (CLDR) th…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse. Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 30th September 2024
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Helped with fixing seeds for some Ubuntu desktop flavors for Ubuntu 24.10 Beta, particularly Ubuntu Cinnamon. Flavors are required to ship a beta to be included in the final release so this was critical work. We switched the default renderer for gtk4 4.16 for Debian and Ubuntu 24.10 to ngl instead …
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Uploaded gtk4 4.16 and libadwaita 1.6 to Debian Unstable which enabled us to then upload most of the rest of GNOME 47 to Unstable also. It should be migrating to Debian Testing within a few days. Uploaded gjs 1.82 to Debian Unstable. Because mozjs is no longer built on armel, GNOME Shell will no lo…
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Sponsored packaging for some of the early GNOME 47.0 pieces. GNOME 47 is scheduled for release on Wednesday! The Ubuntu 24.10 Beta is scheduled for release on Thursday! Updated several packaged GNOME Shell extensions in Debian to smooth the GNOME Shell 47 transition that we’ll do there soon We a…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 9th September 2024
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Lots of GNOME 47 packaging. This time a lot of my work was sponsoring work from others on the team. Simon did a bunch of work on gtk4 to fix remaining test issues on other architectures. Simon & I worked together to get autopkgtests working again with mutter 47rc. Alessandro also fixed an important…
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The Rust GNOME 47 transition has finished for Ubuntu 24.10 and is expected to migrate to Debian Testing in a few days The Feature Freeze Exception to build a few more libraries with improved sysprof support was approved Cherrypicked a gst-plugins-base fix for the rust-gstreamer-video s390x test …
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Nearly finished the rust-gtk4 0.9 (GNOME 47) transition in Ubuntu 24.10. This took most of my time last week. Started the rust-gtk4 transition in Debian Unstable Did the first gtksourceview3 upload in 5 years to fix a GCC-14 build failure, but things really should switch to gtksourceview4 instead w…
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Finally got gtk4 4.14 into Debian Testing just in time to work on packaging gtk4 4.15 for GNOME 47 Packaged GNOME 47 Beta for Ubuntu 24.10 Notably we got GNOME Shell and the new gtk4/libadwaita and most GNOME 47 apps out of oracular-proposed and into oracular itself before Feature Freeze today. So…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 12th August 2024
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Packaged poppler 24.08, the poppler version that will be included in Ubuntu 24.10 Preparation for GNOME 47 Beta – Packaged mozjs128, the new annual version of Firefox ESR’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, for the Debian and Ubuntu NEW queues – Packaged Evolution 3.53.2 (equivalent to GNOME 47…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 29th July 2024
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Uploaded ptyxis to Debian NEW. Thanks Alex Myczko for doing most of the initial packaging and requesting this for months. I was also fortunate enough to get a quick demo of the app from the developer at GUADEC last week. I think this potentially could be used as the default terminal app for Ubuntu …
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Fixed a delay installing gnome-remote-desktop 46 for Debian & Ubuntu 24.10 & proposed it for 24.04 LTS. The fix uses a custom postinst instead of the automated debhelper version. With the gnome-remote-desktop issue fixed, requested approval from the Debian Release Team to push GNOME Shell 46 to Deb…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 8th July 2024
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Collaborated with Michael Tokarev to update the freerdp3 package in Debian and Ubuntu to 3.6.3 Collaborated with Giafranco on the gnustep 1.30 transition for Ubuntu Giafranco also completed the last bits of the poppler 24.06 transition for Ubuntu Cherry-picked the default font change for GNOME 4…
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Worked through the poppler reverse dependency failures with a lot of help from Andreas Hasenack (who was doing +1 maintenance). The last one to figure out is inkscape. We forwarded the fixes to Debian and also to upstream in cases where the fixes weren’t already in upstream. Helped identify the upl…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 24th June 2024
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Fixed the C++ symbols file for poppler 24.06 and uploaded it to Ubuntu 24.10 Started working through the poppler reverse dependency build failures Cherrypicked fixes for astroidmail to work with webkitgtk 4.1 and libsoup3 to reintroduce the package to Ubuntu 24.10 Filed bugs against all the rema…
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Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse . Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 17th June 2024
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Did the jpeg-xl 0.9 transition for Ubuntu 24.10 except for krita where I filed a bug. This version of jpeg-xl includes the gdk-pixbuf support (as a separate binary package) which is required for jpeg-xl support to work in GNOME apps and as the desktop wallpaper. Identified an issue with the “mainta…
