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Build patched VeraCrypt packages for buster

In buster we need custom packages for:

  • gnome-shell: Patches released in 3.33.2, buster has 3.30.2
  • gtk: Not all patches merged yet, will not make it into Buster
  • gjs: depends on gtk
  • gvfs: The latest of our patches was released in 1.39.1, Buster has 1.38.1

We don’t need custom packages anymore for:

  • glib: VeraCrypt patch was released in 2.57.2, Buster has 2.58.3
  • udisks2: last VeraCrypt patch released in 2.8.1, which is the version in Buster
  • gnome-disk-utility: VeraCrypt patch was released in 3.29.2 , Buster has 3.30.2. We submitted another commit in the context of #15952 to add a tooltip to the keyfile chooser button, which was only released in 3.31.90. But intrigeri wrote on #15952 that we don’t need to backport this patch (except if the tests turn out to be fragile, which I assume they are not, because intrigeri didn’t reopen the ticket)
  • gobject-introspection: This was only required because we rebuilt glib. I thought it would also depend on gtk, but that does not seem to be the case.

Feature Branch: bugfix/16634-build-patched-veracrypt

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