Sync Request: gnome-subtitles-1.4.1 from Debian testing to Ubuntu bionic and xenial

[Pedro Castro]

Please sync package gnome-subtitles-1.4.1 from Debian testing to Ubuntu bionic and xenial.

This package is already up to date in Ubuntu cosmic.

Thank you.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you give the rational of why you think that new version should be backported to bionic (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates about details of stable updates and why/when to do one)

[Pedro Castro (pedrocastro)]

Hi Sebastien. Thanks for your help.

Bionic was the first Ubuntu LTS version not to include gnome-subtitles. While I'm not sure exactly why this happened, but I assume it was likely because it hadn't been updated to GTK 3 at the time Bionic was released. My rational for it to be included in Bionic is:
- Because Bionic is the current Ubuntu LTS version, so it will have a long timespan
- To make sure users of gnome-subtitles that are using this Ubuntu version are able to use it, as they would with other Ubuntu versions.

Concerning the StableReleaseUpdates document, I would say the rational relates to the following points:
Other Safe Cases: (...) high potential for improving the user experience, particularly for Long Term Support releases:
- Bugs which do not fit under above categories, but (...) (2) affect an application rather than critical infrastructure packages (like X.org or the kernel).
- For Long Term Support releases we sometimes want to introduce new features. They must not change the behaviour on existing installations (e. g. entirely new packages are usually fine).

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Hello Pedro, thank you for the bug report.

As for Xenial, we rarely sync new packages into stable releases; I would recommend either following the Backports process or making a snap of it.

For Bionic, please utilize the template for SRUs to provide rationale for backporting it: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#SRU_Bug_Template

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Thanks!