With previous versions of gnome-terminal, upgrading would take effect on
a subsequent run of gnome-terminal, but would not interrupt existing
terminals. However, with the new version of gnome-terminal, upgrading
kills all open gnome-terminal sessions; it appears that it restarts the
systemd user unit.

Please consider changing this to stop killing running terminals, which
may have valuable data or context in them.

Control: severity -1 serious

This is probably a side-effect of the debhelper compat level bump to 14,
which restarts systemd user units by default. I agree that this is
undesirable for the specific case of a terminal emulator, and I don't
think the package should migrate to testing until this is fixed.

I now wonder whether gnome-console has the same bug?

ptyxis (the default terminal emulator in new installations of Debian
testing with GNOME) doesn't, but probably only because it hasn't been
migrated to compat level 14 yet. We should be careful not to introduce
that bug when it does move to compat level 14.

     smcv

It does not, because gnome-console doesn't ship a systemd user service,
only a D-Bus session service. So this is only a gnome-terminal bug right
now (but we should be careful not to introduce it into ptyxis or
gnome-console later).

     smcv

Do you want me to do a new gnome-terminal upload to switch it back to
debhelper compat 13 now?

Can we think of any other GNOME packages that we would not want to
update to debhelper compat 14 until we implement a workaround?

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Hello,

Bug #1144676 in gnome-terminal reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/extras/gnome-terminal/-/commit/c799b6ce80144a79fe7458a74c72a8142946e808
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Revert "Update debhelper compat to 14"

In debhelper compat level 14, systemd user services are restarted on
upgrade, and unlike system services there is currently no way to
configure this not to happen. We don't want all running terminals to
exit during an upgrade.

This reverts commit 8a7cccd5b0a1e511084daf74185f28d08b736081.

Closes: #1144676
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(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1144676

No need, I already uploaded one. (diffoscope says there's no functional
change other than the maintainer scripts.)

Anything that has a systemd user service, where it would be a serious
problem for that service to restart when upgraded. (gnome-shell!)

If in doubt, test the upgrade by installing it locally (a "live"
upgrade, not a reboot-to-upgrade), and if your session survives, it's
probably OK.

     smcv

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnome-terminal, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1144676@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> (supplier of updated gnome-terminal package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:22:02 +0100
Source: gnome-terminal
Architecture: source
Version: 3.60.0-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Extras Maintainers <pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Closes: 1144676
Changes:
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     In debhelper compat level 14, systemd user services are restarted
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