[needs-packaging] Sponsorship: Upload gnome-online-accounts-gtk

[fossfreedom]

On behalf of Ubuntu Budgie please could you please consider sponsoring this package for Noble.

I will separately pursue upload through Debian (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068200) - but given the tight release timescales I would hope Ubuntu would consider this - I will look after this package under the Ubuntu Budgie packageset rights (to be requested via the DMB) for the LTS series

This application is key for the GTK3 desktops for Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Unity and potentially for Ubuntu MATE and xubuntu.

I have a build in our PPA - built against noble-proposed for all architectures

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-online-accounts/+packages

The source and packaging is within this PPA - note the changelog has ~ppa suffix which needs removing before uploading to NEW

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Owner: David Mohammed (hidden)

Package name : gnome-online-accounts-gtk
Version : 3.50.1
Upstream Author : Linux Mint <email address hidden>
URL : https://github.com/linuxmint/gnome-online-accounts-gtk
License : GPL 3/3+
Programming Lang: C
Description : GUI Utility for logging into online accounts
Enter login details for some online services such as Google and Facebook.
This enables applications to access online services like email,
calendars, chat and documents.
.
This is a standalone application for desktop environments where
GNOME Online Accounts capability is not integrated in their equivalent
settings utility.

Details:
Upstream blog post https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4660

"GNOME Online Accounts, aka “GOA”, is a project which allows users to connect to their data in the cloud. This project was only designed for GNOME though so it doesn’t provide any front-end. It only provides libraries (namely libgoa and libgoa-backend).

Other than GNOME, many desktop environments integrated a front-end to these libraries in their control center: Cinnamon, Budgie, Unity, etc.

This project is important because it doesn’t just connect a desktop to the cloud, it’s used by many applications and libraries. Among other things you might use it to connect the Calendar application, the Thunderbird email program or the file browser to your online data.

With GNOME 46, libgoa/libgoa-backend 3.50 moved to GTK4. It can no longer be used by GTK3 applications.

To solve this problem a new XApp called GNOME Online Account GTK was created. As any XApp its goal is to work for everybody, in any desktop environment and in any Linux distribution.

This app makes it possible for Cinnamon/Budgie/Unity users to continue to use this functionality. It also provides it to any desktop that didn’t have access to it before (for instance: MATE and Xfce editions in Linux Mint)."

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Since this has been uploaded to the Ubuntu NEW queue, I am unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors. Please feel free to resubscribe if you have something else that needs to be sponsored.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-online-accounts-gtk - 3.50.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-online-accounts-gtk (3.50.1-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Initial version (LP: #2059966)

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:03:36 +0100