Don't recommend GNOME OS in GNOME Boxes

[Jeremy Bícha]

Impact
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GNOME Boxes shows GNOME OS in its recommended downloads list. However, GNOME OS doesn't currently run in Ubuntu's GNOME Boxes due to a firmware issue that hasn't been isolated and fixed yet.

Test Case
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We need to simulate a machine that used GNOME Boxes prior to April 2022 to make this test case reproducible.

1. Install the updated gnome-boxes
2. Open the Boxes app.
3. Click the + button.
4. You should not see GNOME OS in the list of recommended downloads.
5. Click "Download an operating system". If you search for GNOME OS, it will still show up there as an option.

What Could Go Wrong
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This updates a metadata file to remove one option that we don't want to recommend. Because it's still available in the full list of available operating systems, this should be safe. You can also boot a GNOME OS ISO you downloaded outside of GNOME Boxes using the "create virtual machine from file" option.

Other Info
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I intended to release this before Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but didn't realize I hadn't done it in April.

GNOME OS was not recommended in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or previous Ubuntu releases.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-boxes into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-boxes/42.2-0ubuntu1 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-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. 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.

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Test case reproduced in Jammy for proposed 42.2-0ubuntu1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-boxes - 42.2-0ubuntu1

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gnome-boxes (42.2-0ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1980416)
  * Use session-migration to remove the old cached Ubuntu logo (LP: #1980413)
  * Don't recommend GNOME OS since it doesn't run in our GNOME Boxes
    (LP: #1980414)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:19:20 -0400

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-boxes 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.