Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

gnome-shell does not contain gjs dependence

Bug #1993831 reported by Sabri Ünal
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Hi, I updated from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 22.10 and I had an issue with GNOME shell "Extensions" app.

I replaced "Extensions" (gnome-shell-extension-prefs) with Flatpak version of it from Flathub using GNOME "Software" center.

After this, I'm not sure, I might have used the "sudo apt auto-remove" command.

After these changes, Flatpak version of the "Extensions" app gave an error: (https://github.com/flathub/org.gnome.Extensions/issues/13)

After a bit of digging, I realized removing "Extensions" packages also removes gjs dependence. So I installed gjs package and "Extensions" works again.

1) OS
OS: Ubuntu 22.10
Desktop: GNOME

2) Package
gnome-shell: 43.0-1ubuntu2
gnome-shell-extension-prefs: 43.0-1ubuntu2

3) What you expected to happen

Removing the package and installing Flatpak version without any error.

4) What happened instead

I replaced the app with Flatpak version and it removed gjs and gnome-shell extension support.

Tags: kinetic
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I am closing this bug.

In the upstream report, upstream confirms that gnome-shell itself does not need 'gjs', only the gjs library.

The gnome-shell-extension-prefs app packaged as a .deb correctly depends on gjs.

A default Ubuntu Desktop install includes gjs. For you to remove gjs, you will have needed to remove the GNOME Characters app and the Desktop Icons NG extension and the ubuntu-desktop metapackage. At that point, you're outside the fully supported Ubuntu Desktop experience.

Maybe the Flatpak needs to bundle 'gjs' if it requires gjs.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Invalid → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

After I started typing this comment, upstream left a later comment

"gnome-shell includes some small external D-Bus services - namely org.gnome.Shell.Extensions.service, org.gnome.Shell.Notifications.service and org.gnome.Shell.Screencast.service - that require the standalone gjs executable. The package that provides /usr/bin/gjs should therefore be a dependency of the package that includes those services (gnome-shell/gnome-shell-common)."

Having working notifications and screencasting is important, so I'm reopening this bug. Thank you for taking the time to help make Ubuntu better.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
tags: added: kinetic
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