Update to 3.38.3 and SRU it

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

[ Impact ]

That's the current GNOME stable update, including some fixes and translation updates
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commits/3.38.3

[ Test case ]

The update is part of GNOME stable updates
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/GNOME

GNOME Shell and its components should continue working

Ideally the verification should include checking those extensions before and after the update to ensure the SRU isn't creating regressions
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/511426552/gse

[ Regression potential ]

Icon grid behavior has some changes reverted which may lead to slight difference in look.
Workspace switch fixes have been included, so workspace behavior should be checked.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.38.3-2ubuntu1

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gnome-shell (3.38.3-2ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Merge with debian, containing new upstream release (LP: #1915089)
  * debian/patches: Correctly handle login cancellation and failures.
    Ensure the GDM workers are terminated before restarting a new auth
    request, allowing fingerprint authentication to be restarted.
    (LP: #1915066)
  * debian/patches: Show errors on fingerprint failures and limit retries.
    (LP: #1865838)
  * debian/control: BD on gstreamer and pipewire, depend on gstreamer1.0-pipewire.
    Enable building with pipewire now that is in main and add runtime
    dependency on gstreamer-pipewire to gnome-shell (LP: #1901391).

gnome-shell (3.38.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/patches: Update to 3.38.3-3-ge3dc4401d from gnome-3-38 branch
    - Fix opening Extensions app from notification
    - Fix workspace layout in right-to-left locales
    - Don't break window focusing if trying to take an area screenshot while
      an application such as a game has an X11 grab (LP: #1910235)

gnome-shell (3.38.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/watch: Only watch for 3.38.x versions
  * New upstream release

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:16:10 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.2 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. 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 for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

All works fine from my test

$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell
gnome-shell:
  Installed: 3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.2
  Candidate: 3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.38.2-1ubuntu1~20.10.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy-updates/main amd64 Packages
     3.38.1-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.2

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gnome-shell (3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.2) groovy; urgency=medium

  * d/p/gdm-Don-t-try-to-retry-authenticating-when-the-service-is.patch:
    - gdm: Don't try to retry authenticating when the service is unavailable
      (Related to lp:1915570, regression in 3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.1)

gnome-shell (3.38.3-2ubuntu0.20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * Merge with debian, containing new upstream release (LP: #1915089)
  * debian/patches: Correctly handle login cancellation and failures.
    Ensure the GDM workers are terminated before restarting a new auth
    request, allowing fingerprint authentication to be restarted.
    (LP: #1915066)
  * debian/patches: Show errors on fingerprint failures and limit retries.
    (LP: #1865838)

gnome-shell (3.38.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/patches: Update to 3.38.3-3-ge3dc4401d from gnome-3-38 branch
    - Fix opening Extensions app from notification
    - Fix workspace layout in right-to-left locales
    - Don't break window focusing if trying to take an area screenshot while
      an application such as a game has an X11 grab (LP: #1910235)

gnome-shell (3.38.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/watch: Only watch for 3.38.x versions
  * New upstream release

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:23:21 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-shell has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.