Populate featured snaps from ubuntu-firstrun category

[Robert Ancell]

[Impact]
There is a hidden category in the snap store called "ubuntu-firstrun" which shows appropriate snaps to show the user. This category was created after gnome-initial-setup had Snap support added to it and used the "featured" category.

[Test Case]
1. Open GNOME Initial Setup
2. Go to final page

Expected result:
Snaps are shown from the "ubuntu-firstrun" category.

Observed result:
Snaps are shown from the "featured" category.

[Regression Potential]
Very low. Just the name of the category is changed and has been in use since cosmic.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

You can get the current contents of each category with:
$ snap find --section=featured
$ curl --unix-socket /run/snapd.socket http://localhost/v2/find?section=ubuntu-firstrun|jq '.result|.[].name'

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Forum post when this was discovered:
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/ubuntu-firstrun-hidden-section-not-showing-in-ubuntu-initial-setup/12966/3

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Could you please double confirm for me that this is already 'fixed' for the devel release? Also, what about disco? I understand that gnome-initial-setup is only ran on first boot and since we won't have new installer images, the impact might be lower, but most people install with enabled download of updates - wouldn't that make them benefit from a fixed gnome-initial-setup package?

Anyway, despite those small questions I'd like answered, I'll accept the package into -proposed. But please follow up on those before we consider releasing the change to -updates.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Robert, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-initial-setup into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-initial-setup/3.28.0-2ubuntu6.16.04.6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

The category was changed in cosmic, so the change is present in both disco and eoan:

gnome-initial-setup (3.30.0-1ubuntu3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Populate featured snaps from ubuntu-firstrun category

 -- Andrea Azzarone <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:25:35 +0100

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Tested on a clean 18.04 VM and updated the proposed package. I now see the correct set of applications. Thanks!

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Excellent, thanks for the info!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-initial-setup - 3.28.0-2ubuntu6.16.04.6

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gnome-initial-setup (3.28.0-2ubuntu6.16.04.6) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0001-Add-Ubuntu-mode-with-special-pages.patch:
    - Fix patch being corrupted in previous release

gnome-initial-setup (3.28.0-2ubuntu6.16.04.5) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0001-Add-Ubuntu-mode-with-special-pages.patch:
    - Populate featured snaps from ubuntu-firstrun category (LP: #1841818)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:48:27 +0300

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-initial-setup has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.