[SRU] Update to bugfix release 3.0.3 in Bionic

[Simon Quigley]

[Impact]

VLC has received a bugfix update on the 3.0.x release path, which was recommended to us for additional stability in the Long Term Support release.

[Test Case]

Install vlc from bionic-proposed and test it for a decent amount of time. Play different video formats to catch any regressions, and use it as you normally would.

[Regression Potential]

The 3.0.x branch receives only bug fixes, which are cherry-picked from the master branch where the main development takes place. So, I think the regression potential is low.

[Other Info]

Here is the upstream Git repository: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git;a=summary

We released the previous VLC bugfix release for this branch into Bionic a week or so ago, see bug 1771259 for details. This was very successful, and no regressions have been reported.

The next point release won't come as frequently as the update from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2, but it would be good to keep on this track.

Upstream changelog:

Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
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Core:
 * Update subtitles display while paused

Access:
 * Enable srt support on binary builds

Decoders:
 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
 * Fix subsdec wide character support
 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC

Demux:
 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
 * Fix forced tracks selection
 * Fix Topfield files
 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams

macOS:
 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences

Video Output:
 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11

Qt:
 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen

Misc:
 * Fix amem output
 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
 * Fix audioscrobbling
 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues

Translations:
 * Update of most languages

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

I had a quick look at the package and got slightly worried by the huge diff in the po/* parts of the package. Some languages have ~6000 changes, with some languages resetting their translation strings to "" (e.g. the zu.po one). Is that intentional? Do we use those po files for translations?

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Any news on this?

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

An upload of vlc to bionic-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "For now rejected until the translation thing is cleared out. Please re-upload once it is confirmed that all those changes are wanted.".

[Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher)]

Only fuzzy translations were removed, so that's fine.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Simon mentioned a CVE on this on IRC so I asked if this (or at least a security part) should go in the security pocket instead. Simon will ask the security team.

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

I think for changes this size, I'd rather they go through the normal SRU process and then we can bring them in to -security with a no-change rebuild if there are no complaints.

Thanks

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

NOTE: This was built in the ubuntu-security-proposed PPA, so once verification is complete, it can be released to both -updates and -security without a rebuild.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Simon, or anyone else affected,

Accepted vlc into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/3.0.3-1-1ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

After playing a few videos and generally just poking around with it, 3.0.3-1-1ubuntu1 works fine for me.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 3.0.3-1-1ubuntu1

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vlc (3.0.3-1-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release (LP: #1774067).

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:06:05 -0500