[SRU] plasma-distro-release-notifier for Jammy, Focal

[Erich Eickmeyer]

[ Impact ]

 * The status-quo for current Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu users (all users of Ubuntu running the KDE Plasma Desktop) is that there is no mechanism to warn them of new releases. This is especially problematic for LTS releases when a new LTS release comes out, or if it is set to look for a new regular release.

 * This is resolved by a new package included in Kinetic - plasma-distro-release-notifier - which uses the backend of update-manager-common to identify whether or not a new version of Ubuntu has been released.

[ Test Plan ]

 * Install Ubuntu Studio 22.04 -OR- Kubuntu 22.04 -OR- Kubuntu 20.04

 * Notice 20.04 does not notify of a new release despite being set to "lts" in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.

 * For 22.04 releases, change /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades "Prompt=" line to "Prompt=normal"

 * Also, notice no prompt for updates on 22.04 releases.

[ Where problems could occur ]

 * This will require introducing an entirely new package and adding the package to the kubuntu-desktop metapackage and the ubuntustudio-desktop metapackage for Jammy, and the kubuntu-desktop metapackage for focal. Things could go wrong if there is a failure to upgrade.

 * Additional failures can happen if the patch in d/patches of plasma-distro-release-notifier for the version number fails to point to the correct version number upon upload. This is easily fixed, but also something to keep an eye on and would be human error.

[ Other Info ]

 * plasma-distro-release-notifier was initially tested to work inside of 20.04 with positive results. The same is expected for 22.04.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted plasma-distro-release-notifier into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-distro-release-notifier/20220915-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 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-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.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted plasma-distro-release-notifier into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-distro-release-notifier/20220915-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 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-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. 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.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

After enabling proposed, installing plasma-distro-release-notifier, disabling proposed, and rebooting, the notification came up within the first minute after reboot.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

After enabling proposed, installing plasma-distro-release-notifier, disabling proposed, setting software-properties to look for "Normal" and rebooting, the notification came up within the first minute after reboot.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package plasma-distro-release-notifier - 20220915-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

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plasma-distro-release-notifier (20220915-0ubuntu0.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Backport to Jammy (LP: #1989611)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:41:07 -0700

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for plasma-distro-release-notifier 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package plasma-distro-release-notifier - 20220915-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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plasma-distro-release-notifier (20220915-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Backport to Focal (LP: #1989611)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:41:07 -0700

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

SRU Team:

We're not quite done yet. I uploaded a new version of ubuntustudio-meta which adds plasma-distro-release-notifier to ubuntustudio-desktop. Working with Rik Mills to add it to kubuntu-desktop as well for focal and jammy. Not sure when those uploads will happen, definitely on Rik's timeline there.

Thanks for everything!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntustudio-meta into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntustudio-meta/0.266.3 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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

@rikmills this isn't relevant to this particular SRU but its curious that the debootstrap version referenced in kubuntu-meta for jammy is one from bionic.

  1 diff -Nru kubuntu-meta-1.418/debian/changelog kubuntu-meta-1.418.1/debian/changelog
  2 --- kubuntu-meta-1.418/debian/changelog 2022-03-21 07:24:00.000000000 +0000
  3 +++ kubuntu-meta-1.418.1/debian/changelog 2022-11-16 05:56:12.000000000 +0000
  4 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
  5 +kubuntu-meta (1.418.1) jammy; urgency=medium
  6 +
  7 + * Refreshed dependencies
  8 + * Added plasma-distro-release-notifier to desktop-recommends (LP: #1989611)
  9 +
 10 + -- Rik Mills <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:56:12 +0000
 11 +
 12 kubuntu-meta (1.418) jammy; urgency=medium
 13
 14 * Refreshed dependencies
 15 diff -Nru kubuntu-meta-1.418/debootstrap-version kubuntu-meta-1.418.1/debootstrap-version
 16 --- kubuntu-meta-1.418/debootstrap-version 2022-03-21 07:24:00.000000000 +0000
 17 +++ kubuntu-meta-1.418.1/debootstrap-version 2022-11-16 05:56:12.000000000 +0000
 18 @@ -1 +1 @@
 19 -1.0.95ubuntu0.10
 20 +1.0.95ubuntu0.12

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted kubuntu-meta into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/1.418.1 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-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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Erich, or anyone else affected,

Accepted kubuntu-meta into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/1.398.1 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-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. 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.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Tested on Kubuntu Focal. Enabled proposed, updated kubuntu-desktop to 1.398.1. plasma-distro-release-notifier was pulled-in via recommends. Upon reboot, the notifier was displayed within the first minute.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Tested on Kubuntu Jammy. Enabled proposed, switched from LTS to Regular Releases, updated kubuntu-desktop to 1.418.1. plasma-distro-release-notifier was pulled-in via recommends. Upon reboot, the notifier was displayed within the first minute.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Tested on Ubuntu Studio Jammy. Enabled proposed, switched from LTS to Regular Releases, updated ubuntustudio-desktop to 0.266.3. plasma-distro-release-notifier was pulled-in via recommends. Upon reboot, the notifier was displayed within the first minute.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntustudio-meta - 0.266.3

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ubuntustudio-meta (0.266.3) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added plasma-distro-release-notifier to desktop-recommends (LP: #1989611)

 -- Erich Eickmeyer <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:10:33 -0800

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kubuntu-meta - 1.418.1

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kubuntu-meta (1.418.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added plasma-distro-release-notifier to desktop-recommends (LP: #1989611)

 -- Rik Mills <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:56:12 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package kubuntu-meta - 1.398.1

---------------
kubuntu-meta (1.398.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added plasma-distro-release-notifier to desktop-recommends (LP: #1989611)

 -- Rik Mills <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:10:12 +0000