Post #2895968
2026-01-03 17:56 UTC
@matt@toot.cafe Debian is just as susceptible to the usual "LTS shipping ancient software" problem. It just happened to release late enough that it got a new enough GNOME version to include this one change you're focusing on.
As far as I understand Debian's policies, if Debian had shipped GNOME 47 they wouldn't backport this accessibility fix to Debian Stable like RH did for RHEL 10. Users would be waiting for Debian 14 and GNOME 51/52, or messing with the Debian Backports repo, which is a can of worms
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@AdrianVovk@fosstodon.org 2026-01-03 18:02
@matt@toot.cafe Case in point: the Orca package In Debian stable they're shipping Orca 48.1. Upstream, the latest release of Orca 48 is 48.7. You can see the change log to read through which bug fixes Debian isn't shipping: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/blob/gnome-48/NEWS Orca is also available in the Backports repo, up to 49.5! However, there's no backport of gnome-shell so we'd still be missing half the solution. If we look at Debian 12 Backports: Orca is 48.1 but gnome-shell is on 43.9. And thus: no working Wayland keybinds