Update gnome-shell to 44.2

[Jeremy Bícha]

Impact
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There is a new bugfix release in the stable 44 series.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/44.2/NEWS

Test Case
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Complete all the non-optional test cases at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/GNOMEShell

What Could Go Wrong
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GNOME Shell is the heart of the Ubuntu desktop experience.

A severe enough bug could mean that people are unable to use their desktop version of Ubuntu.

Smaller bugs could interrupt people's workflows.

GNOME Shell is included in the GNOME micro release exception

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/GNOME

Other Info
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gnome-shell provides the GNOME version number for the Settings app About page, as of Ubuntu 22.10 (in earlier Ubuntu releases, this was provided by gnome-desktop/gnome-desktop3)

This update requires mutter 44.2 (LP: #2022951). This was done with bumped dependencies in debian/control. gnome-shell 44.2 could be run with mutter 44.1, but mixing different versions of mutter & gnome-shell is not supported upstream.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 44.2-1ubuntu1

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gnome-shell (44.2-1ubuntu1) mantic; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian (LP: #2022961). Remaining changes:
    - Add some Recommends:
      + ubuntu-session (| gnome-session) to have the ubuntu session available
      + ubuntu-wallpapers
      + xserver-xorg-legacy
      + yaru-theme-gnome-shell for the default ubuntu theming
    - Move some Recommends to Suggests:
      + chrome-gnome-shell
      + gnome-backgrounds
    - Update debian/gbp.conf with Ubuntu settings
    - debian/ubuntu-session-mods/ubuntu.json: Use Yaru's gnome-shell icons
    - debian/patches: Do not hang & crash if fingerprint service fails to start
      (LP: #1962566)
    - ubuntu/desktop_detect.patch:
      + add caching for desktop detection to avoid querying the current
        desktop env variable as iterate through the list each time. For the
        time of the Shell process, we can expect this env variable to stay
        stable.
    - ubuntu/lightdm-user-switching.patch:
      + Allow user switching when using LightDM.
    - ubuntu/lock_on_suspend.patch
      + Respect Ubuntu's lock-on-suspend setting.
    - ubuntu/background_login.patch
      + Change default background color as we modified the default GDM color
        for our ubuntu session.
    - ubuntu/gdm_alternatives.patch
      + Add support for GDM3 theme alternatives
    - main-show-an-error-message-on-gnome-shell-crash.patch,
      global-make-possible-to-set-debug-flags-dynamically.patch,
      main-increase-the-granularity-of-backtraces-in-SHELL_DEBU.patch,
      main-add-backtrace-crashes-all-and-backtrace-all.patch,
      sessionMode-add-support-for-debugFlags-parameter.patch:
      + Improve debug JS tracing for crash reports
    - ubuntu/smarter_alt_tab.patch:
      + quick alt-tab (without showing up the switcher) switch only between
        the last window of the last 2 applications to be focused instead of
        raising all windows of those apps.
    - magnifier-Show-cursor-when-magnifier-is-enabled-and-scale.patch:
      + Show monitor scaled cursor when magnifier is enabled
    - ubuntu/search-call-XUbuntuCancel-method-on-providers-when-no-dat.patch:
      + stop searches when requested from UI
    - magnifier-Show-cursor-when-magnifier-is-enabled-and-scale.patch
    - u/search-call-XUbuntuCancel-method-on-providers-when-no-dat.patch
    - ubuntu/resolve_alternate_theme_path.patch
    - ubuntu/secure_mode_extension.patch
    - ubuntu/keep-ubuntu-logo-bright-lp1867133-v1.patch
    - ubuntu/configure_login_screen.patch
    - ubuntu/layout-Make-starting-in-the-overview-optional.patch:
      + Makes dock replace overview easier
    - ubuntu/layout-Try-to-allocate-before-getting-size-of-tracke.patch:
      + Ensure windows don't get maximized under the panels / dock
    - debian/patches: Compute system background color from theme (LP: #1965727)
    - ubuntu/configure-login-screen.patch: Use bg color for initial system bg
      (LP: #1965727)
    - debian/patches: Ensure St.Entry's `selected-color` CSS property is
      honored (LP: #1878998)
    - ubuntu/support-loading-Yaru-variants: Handle dark/light variants bett...

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/44.2-0ubuntu1 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-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. 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.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I installed gnome-shell 44.2-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu 23.04 and successfully completed all 3 test cases.

I believe the workrave extension broke between 44 Beta and 44 RC. It is currently broken in Ubuntu 23.04 but this was broken before these gnome-shell SRUs. Today, a fix for workrave was uploaded to Ubuntu 23.10 that may fix that issue so I will look into SRUing that fix.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 44.2-0ubuntu1

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gnome-shell (44.2-0ubuntu1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2022961)
  * debian/control.in: Bump minimum mutter to 44.2

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:03:01 -0400

[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.