[SRU] Update to 1.68.1

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

[ Impact ]

That's the current GNOME stable update, including many memory fixes
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/commits/1.68.1

[ Test case ]

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

GNOME Shell and its components should continue working, as well other gjs based apps like polari or gnome-weather and maps

[ Regression potential ]

The way the objects are handled when (un)reffed from other threads or after (and during) disposition changed a lot, so it could both cause:
 1. Leaks (memory waste in fact) if objects are kept referenced by gjs and not released when nothing else
    need them
 2. New crashes or dead-locks when objects are (un)reffed from other threads

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Can you please clarify how 1.67.2 -> 1.68.1 fits under the gnome stable update policy? these appear to be separate minor versions. Was 1.67.2 not a stable release?

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Sure, so yes 1.67.2 was a unstable version (in gnome, the libraries that follow the old versioning schema use odd minor version numbers for unstable versions).

The first stable version of the serie was 1.68.0, but it was affected by mayor crashes [1] and so we decided to delay releasing it to the first stable release update, that is 1.68.1

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/395

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gjs into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gjs/1.68.1-1~ubuntu0.21.04.1 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-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. 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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The Hirsute Hippo has reached End of Life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release.