XPost: linux.debian.devel.release

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: affects -1 + src:nautilus
User: [email protected]
Usertags: unblock

Please unblock nautilus ("Files"), GNOME's file manager.

As with other recent unblock requests I would like this to be considered
for Debian 13.0 if possible, but if we're too late for that, it can be
deferred to 13.1 by converting this request into a trixie-pu request.

[ Reason ]

New upstream bugfix release

[ Impact ]

Various upstream bug fixes and one packaging fix.

The upstream bug fixes include a couple of crashes, a memory leak,
replacing a broken icon with one that is still available (similar to my
recent unblock request for gnome-terminal), and interacting better with focus-stealing prevention so that a programmatically-opened window can correctly take focus if it was opened in response to user action.

The packaging also promotes gvfs-backends from Recommends to Depends,
because nautilus is not really designed to be used without it, and
in particular attempting to access network:/// would crash.

[ Tests ]

Manually tested, including some but not all of the changed areas:

- accessing my home directory on local disk
- Ctrl+L while in the recent:// view
- accessing a remote (gvfs) filesystem via smb://
- copying a large file from smb:// to exercise the progress dialog

It has been in unstable for 3 days with no regressions reported. A 5-day migration delay like the team has been applying to other GNOME package
updates seems appropriate.

[ Risks ]

Key package in our default desktop environment.

All changes are targeted fixes for specific issues.

The change to focus-stealing-prevention-prevention is fairly noisy
because it adds an extra parameter to a frequently-used function, but
the way it has been done is obviously correct. I checked on codesearch
that the function isn't referenced by out-of-tree plugins.

[ Checklist ]
[x] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
[x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[x] attach debdiff against the package in testing
(filtered to exclude translations)

unblock nautilus/48.3-2

debdiff *.dsc | filterdiff -p1 -x 'po/*.po'

diff -Nru nautilus-48.2/data/org.gnome.Nautilus.metainfo.xml.in.in nautilus-48.3/data/org.gnome.Nautilus.metainfo.xml.in.in
--- nautilus-48.2/data/org.gnome.Nautilus.metainfo.xml.in.in 2025-05-25 10:10:18.000000000 +0100
+++ nautilus-48.3/data/org.gnome.Nautilus.metainfo.xml.in.in 2025-06-29 21:22:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
<release version="@release-version@" date="@build-date@"/>
-->
<releases>
- <release version="@release-version@" type="stable" date="2025-05-24"/>
+ <release version="@release-version@" type="stable" date="2025-06-29"/>
</releases>
<project_group>GNOME</project_group>
<project_license>GPL-3.0-or-later</project_license>
diff -Nru nautilus-48.2/debian/changelog nautilus-48.3/debian/changelog
--- nautilus-48.2/debian/changelog 2025-06-11 09:53:17.000000000 +0100
+++ nautilus-48.3/debian/changelog 2025-07-13 17:28:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,49 @@
+nautilus (48.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload
+ * Expand change details in previous changelog entry to provide more
+ information for the release team
+ * d/watch: Only watch versions 48.x unt