Release gnome-shell 42.9 to Jammy

[Jeremy Bícha]

Impact
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There is a new bugfix release in the stable 42 series.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/42.9/NEWS

The overall GNOME project considers GNOME 42 to be end of life now and there are no more scheduled releases for GNOME Shell 42 after 42.9

The current version of GNOME Shell in Jammy is 42.5.

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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This update requires mutter 42.9 (LP: #1998286). This was done with bumped dependencies in debian/control. gnome-shell 42.9 could be run with mutter 42.5, but mixing different versions of mutter & gnome-shell is not supported upstream.

WARNING
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Because of an apt phasing issue (LP: #2025462), gnome-shell 42.9 must NOT be released to updates until mutter 42.9 has been released to jammy-updates and has fully phased.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/42.9-0ubuntu2 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.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Because of an apt phasing issue (LP: #2025462), gnome-shell 42.9 must NOT be released to updates until mutter 42.9 has been released to jammy-updates and has fully phased.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I have dropped the block-proposed-jammy tag since Mutter 42.9 is in jammy-updates and has fully phased.

I installed gnome-shell 42.9-0ubuntu2 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and successfully completed all 3 test cases.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 42.9-0ubuntu2

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gnome-shell (42.9-0ubuntu2) jammy; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2023913)
  * debian/control.in: Bump minimum mutter to 42.9

 -- Jeremy Bícha <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:35:33 -0400

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

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.