A new upstream major release of GNOME Shell is available in
experimental, and as usual, all GNOME Shell extensions will need updates
to be compatible with the new version.

Upstream provides a migration guide here:
<https://gjs.guide/extensions/upgrading/gnome-shell-50.html>

and there is some Debian-specific documentation here:
<https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-shell/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/updating-extensions.md?ref_type=heads>

When the rest of the necessary packages are ready and the release team
gives the go-ahead to do the transition, bug reports like this one will
be raised to serious. If extensions aren't compatible with the new GNOME
Shell, they'll have to be removed from testing temporarily.

Thanks,
     smcv

We'll be requesting approval from the Debian Release Team soon to do
the GNOME Shell 51 transition. Therefore, I'm raising the severity of
these bugs. Packages that aren't ready by the time GNOME Shell 51 is
ready to migrate to Testing will be removed from Testing to complete
the transition.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Hi Jermemy,

the transition workflow asks to bump the severity to RC only after the
transition has started [1] . Please respect the estabilished procedures and
don't create a artifical pressure.

Thanks.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions

I think the situation here is a bit different than FTBFS bugs which
are the most common type of transition blocker bug. If these
extensions are not either fixed or removed from Testing, it is
impossible for gnome-shell to migrate to Testing. Waiting until the
new gnome-shell version is in unstable has 2 side effects:
- Debian reports that the package will be automatically removed, but
the date is wrong; the actual removal will happen manually much
sooner.
- The Release Team needs to manually remove any packages that aren't
either fixed or auto-removed already, so that's extra work for them.

You're the only person who has complained when I've done this. I
expect that I'll file the transition bug Monday morning; it's a
simpler transition than some in the past so I expect approval may be
quick. I think it could be less work for everyone if you updated your
package instead of complaining about the bug severity.

I'm sorry that you feel stress from the RC bug. My intent is to send a
friendly reminder to extension maintainers to update their packages to
avoid removal from Testing.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

GNOME Shell 51 was uploaded to Unstable today. It looks like version
127 of this extension was recently tagged and claims to support GNOME
Shell 51.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

Hello,

Bug #1148602 in gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar 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/debian/gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar/-/commit/0bc43180980667122b3793f368e2559f683aa418

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1148602

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar, 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 1148602@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org> (supplier of updated gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:43:05 +0200
Source: gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar
Architecture: source
Version: 1:127-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
Changed-By: Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>
Closes: 1148602
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