Since so many components are involved a fix/change might have been missed.
And since I recently didn't hear anything about this otherwise rather hot bug I was giving focal a try.
It turns out that this was indeed improved. Only the user of pkg:ifmail user fdt name "Fidonet" is still visible. All other formerly affected packages are good in Focal.
I can't (without digging through history a lot) say what fixed that but I'll update the bug tasks accordingly. Setting Focal fixed and marking Bionic/Xenial as still affected releases.
The backport tasks for those packages are incomplete thou as it is unclear which change in which package fixed it for Focal.
Note: This is only speaking for the "default config" of Ubuntu Desktop as in 20.04 we know that certain environments will behave differently (e.g. KDE never was affected).
Since so many components are involved a fix/change might have been missed.
And since I recently didn't hear anything about this otherwise rather hot bug I was giving focal a try.
It turns out that this was indeed improved. Only the user of pkg:ifmail user fdt name "Fidonet" is still visible. All other formerly affected packages are good in Focal.
I can't (without digging through history a lot) say what fixed that but I'll update the bug tasks accordingly. Setting Focal fixed and marking Bionic/Xenial as still affected releases.
The backport tasks for those packages are incomplete thou as it is unclear which change in which package fixed it for Focal.
Note: This is only speaking for the "default config" of Ubuntu Desktop as in 20.04 we know that certain environments will behave differently (e.g. KDE never was affected).