See this Ask Fedora topic:
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-34-extensions-installed-from-dnf-d...
In short, some rpm-packaged GNOME Shell extensions don't work with the GNOME
Shell we are shipping, but this isn't expressed in the dependencies.
I looked at the package which triggered the question, and:
$ rpm -qRp
gnome-shell-extension-sound-output-device-chooser-39^1.8c90ed0-1.fc35.noarch.rpm
gnome-shell-extension-common
python3
rpmlib(CaretInVersions) <= 4.15.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <= 5.4.18-1
and
$ rpm2cpio
gnome-shell-extension-sound-output-device-chooser-39^1.8c90ed0-1.fc35.noarch.rpm |cpio -i
--quiet --to-stdout './usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/*/metadata.json'|jq
'."shell-version"'
[
"3.32",
"3.34",
"3.36",
"3.38",
"40"
]
Would it make sense to have an automatic dependency generator which requires
gnome-shell to be one of those versions? (Or conflicts with gnome-shell which is
_not_ those versions?)
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader