From: jbicha@debian.org   
      
   Control: severity -1 important   
      
   Marco,   
      
   Do you want to upload gjs 1.87.2 directly to Unstable to fix this   
   incompatibility with gstreamer 1.28?   
      
   Thank you,   
   Jeremy Bícha   
      
      
   On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 9:49 AM Paul Menzel  wrote:   
   >   
   > Package: libgjs0   
   > Version: 1.86.0-3.1   
   > Tags: upstream fixed-upstream   
   > Forwarded: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8996   
   > Control: affects -1 gnome-shell   
   >   
   > Dear Debian folks,   
   >   
   >   
   > Since the last GStreamer update in Debian sid/unstable I am unable to do   
   > screen recordings, and the error below is logged in the journal:   
   >   
   >      org.gnome.Shell.Screencast[1148]: JS ERROR: Error: Expected type   
   > utf8 for Argument 'argv' but got type 'null'   
   >   
   > canScreencast@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Screencast/js/screen   
   astService.js:516:18   
   >          main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Screencast/js/main.js:6:28   
   >          @file:///usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Screencast:9:7   
   >      org.gnome.Shell.Screencast[1148]: Module   
   > file:///usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Screencast threw an exception   
   >   
   > I reported this upstream to gnome-shell [1], and a fix to gjs was merged   
   > already two months ago [2]. It’d be great if you backported this fix.   
   >   
   >   
   > Kind regards,   
   >   
   > Paul   
   >   
   >   
   > [1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/8996   
   > [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/merge_requests/1047   
      
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