Update gnome-online-accounts to 3.50.4

[Jeremy Bícha]

Impact
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This is a new bugfix release in the stable 3.50.x series.

It significantly improves the usability of the new "Microsoft 365" provider. However, that UI improvement changed translatable strings. See Other Info below.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/-/blob/3.50.4/NEWS

It also improves the new WebDAV account type for Fastmail users. LP: #2072775

Test Cases
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The autopkgtests for gnome-online-accounts should complete successfully

Complete Test Case 2 (Google) from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/OnlineAccounts

What Could Go Wrong
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gnome-online-accounts is included by default in Ubuntu Desktop, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie & Ubuntu Cinnamon.

If gnome-online-accounts is broken, people using Ubuntu may not receive notifications for emails and calendar appointments. This can be mitigated somewhat by using online services via a web browser and enabling notifications in their web browser.

Before Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, gnome-online-accounts used webkit2gtk to handle authentication. By using the browser, gnome-online-accounts can handle many additional types of authentication and is more resilient to API changes and restrictions from the online service providers.

GNOME Online Accounts is part of GNOME Core and is included in the GNOME micro release exception

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

Other Info
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This update includes changes to translatable strings. This package uses Ubuntu language packs. Because language packs are only updated shortly before each Ubuntu LTS point release, ideally this update will be included before the language packs are updated.

The Ubuntu Desktop team considers the effect of changing translatable strings to be low because the changed strings were very new and weren't translated much. The strings are part of the Microsoft 365 feature that is new in GNOME 46. The updated strings have been available upstream since late May and the translation coverage is better although still incomplete. We will likely do another SRU to include another upstream bugfix release (with updated translations) before Ubuntu 24.04.2.

An update to translatable strings like this after a GNOME .0 release is very unusual. However, it was approved by the GNOME Release Team. Screenshots and more info at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Translation/Coordination/-/issues/158

The backend library .symbols file indicates one removed symbol. It has been upstream's opinion for many years that the backend library is internal API and is subject to change. gnome-control-center is the only user of the backend API for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and it never used that symbol. There is a separate frontend library, libgoa-1.0-0b, where it would be a serious issue if symbols were removed without the soname being bumped.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-online-accounts into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-online-accounts/3.50.4-0ubuntu1 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-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. 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.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-online-accounts into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-online-accounts/3.50.4-0ubuntu2 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-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. 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.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted gnome-online-accounts (3.50.4-0ubuntu1) for noble have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

gvfs/1.54.0-1ubuntu2 (s390x)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/noble/update_excuses.html#gnome-online-accounts

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted gnome-online-accounts (3.50.4-0ubuntu2) for noble have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

gvfs/1.54.0-1ubuntu2 (s390x)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/noble/update_excuses.html#gnome-online-accounts

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

The autopkgtests have all passed on retry

[Alessandro Astone (aleasto)]

Verified version 3.50.4-0ubuntu2 of:

libgoa-1.0-common:amd64
libgoa-1.0-0b:amd64
libgoa-backend-1.0-2:amd64
gnome-online-accounts:amd64

in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS