[FFe] gnome-desktop 3.12 transition

Bug #1372346 reported by Tim Lunn
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

We have been trying to land this transition for about 9 months now (well previously was 3.10, but that was largely the same). The big blocker was the removal of xrandr and idlemonitor code out of gnome-desktop. Robert Ancell has solved that issue see Bug 1372240

There is a SONAME bump, however that only affects g-s-d/g-c-c. Mostly apps are using things like the thumbnailer etc, and these are not affected by api changes, so they just need to be rebuilt.

gnome-session could be updated to the latest 3.10 stable release, however this is not strictly required and will require reverting removal of fallback dialogs. A rebuild would be fine for now.

Full lost of r-depends:
Reverse-Depends
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* cheese [x]
* eog [x]
* epiphany-browser [x]
* evince (separately uploaded, no need to rebuild)
* gnome-clocks [x]
* gnome-contacts [x]
* gnome-control-center [x]
* gnome-documents [x]
* gnome-font-viewer [x]
* gnome-panel [x]
* gnome-photos [x]
* gnome-screensaver [x]
* gnome-session [x]
* gnome-settings-daemon [x]
* indicator-keyboard [x]
* evolution [x]
* mutter [x]
* nautilus [x]
* unity [x]
* unity-control-center [x]
* unity-settings-daemon [x]
packages marked [x] are uploaded

I have debian merges ready to go for gnome-desktop, g-s-d and g-c-c 3.12 (but using 3.10 power plugin/panel to untangle from upower 0.99).

gnome-control-center update will also require a UIFe, Ubuntu GNOME slideshow has not yet been updated for utopic, so this shouldnt be a problem from our side. No other flavours use the UI part of gnome-control-center anymore, the shared-data (faces) are unchanged.

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Tim Lunn (darkxst)
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

I want to do this for you guys, but we have beta freeze today. We can't get this done in time for that.

What about if you prepare the packages in a PPA and then I can help with copies / bzr merges on Thursday when the freeze is lifted? That should make the transition go quickly. I think the freeze should mean that we don't have much movement underneath us so it ought to be easy.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Tim Lunn (darkxst)
description: updated
Tim Lunn (darkxst)
tags: added: ubuntugnome-blocker
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Laney, this should be all good to go now, everything is staged on the ppa, and branches are linked above for packages needing merges.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

did you test the gnome-session update in fallback sessions? we blocked the update because of that commit iirc
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-session/commit/?h=gnome-3-10&id=705699b2799a3434d1a8f35c9a92868a5057f73e

which removes the gtk session dialogs, that are still used in e.g gnome-panel type of sessions no?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

your gnome-session update also has
" - 13_display_session_properties.patch, Dropped session UI is gone"

but that's not true, the session properties capplet is still there in 3.10

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you also give a pointer to "the ppa" which you are refering to in previous comment?

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

ppa:darkxst/gnome-desktop

As mentioned on irc, gnome-session update was blocked due to > 3.9.90 crashing when running under gnome-desktop 3.8.
gnome-panel provides its own dialogs, however seems they are only used when clicking through the system menu. I can revert the dialogs for now, but would seem consistent if fallback sessions always used gnome-panel dialogs.

re comment #5, the patch was there just the changelog entry was incorrect.

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Lets just stick with rebuild gnome-session for now, reverting the dialog removal is a bit tangled up with other changes, will deal with that a bit later.

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Tim Lunn (darkxst)
description: updated
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

I uploaded gnome-desktop3. It's in the unapproved queue for review.

Changed in gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Tim Lunn (darkxst)
description: updated
Tim Lunn (darkxst)
description: updated
Iain Lane (laney)
description: updated
Iain Lane (laney)
description: updated
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

To be clear, it was always intended that this transition would allow the corresponding update of gnome-control-center and gnome-settings-daemon to 3.12 so FFe ACK for those (they're ~Ubuntu GNOME only - actually also on Edubuntu but they aren't releasing for Utopic)

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Iain Lane (laney)
description: updated
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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

Looks like g-c-c is depwait on geoclue-2.0, which isn't in main. Probs easiest to revert this, if possible?

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Laney, I have pushed new branches that fix the depwait.

As far as edubuntu goes, they are using gnome-flashback which switched to using u-s-d/u-c-c. I don't think g-s-d/g-c-c should even be seeded on edubuntu. If I am reading the germinate output correctly its being pulled in by gnome-media, which happens to be missing the usual "unity-control-center | gnome-control-center" in the recommends.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-desktop3 - 3.12.2-2ubuntu1

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gnome-desktop3 (3.12.2-2ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1372346)
  * Merge with Debian, Remaining changes:
    - debian/patches:
      + 04_compute_average_color.patch: Compute the avergage color in
        gnome-desktop itself, not in unity to fix some races (LP #963140)
      + tweak_color_computation.patch, Patch from Gord, no patch header,
        no bug link.
      + git_revert_draw_background.patch
      + ubuntu_language.patch, Ported relevant bits from g-c-c
        52_region_language.patch, as required for gnome 3.8 region panel
      + ubuntu_language_list_from_SUPPORTED.patch,
        adds api to get list of available languages from SUPPORTED file.
        To be used by gnome 3.8 region panel language installation.
    - debian/rules:
      + drop obsolete --disable-scrollkeeper configure flag
    - debian/libgnome-desktop-3-10.symbols:
      + Add symbols included in Ubuntu patches
    - debian/control.in:
      + Mark gnome-desktop3-data Multi-Arch: foreign
  * Dropped changes:
    - 02_refuse_to_break_GL_compositors.patch:
      + xrandr code has moved into libunity-settings-daemon now

gnome-desktop3 (3.12.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add debian/patches/realpath-PATH_MAX.patch (from upstream libgsystem)
    - avoids PATH_MAX to hopefully fix FTBFS on Hurd.

gnome-desktop3 (3.12.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5
  * Upload to unstable.

gnome-desktop3 (3.12.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Drop conflicts against libgnome-desktop-3-7 because it is not
    necessary: only leaf packages in G3.8 use gnome-desktop, including
    gnome-shell that does work with the new g-desktop library.
  * New upstream bugfix release.

gnome-desktop3 (3.12.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

gnome-desktop3 (3.11.90-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Rename packages to match new soname.
  * Drop build-dependency on libxkbfile-dev, not needed anymore.
  * Update symbols file for new soname.
  * Drop empty debian/patches/
  * Break libgnome-desktop-3-8 for the same reason as libgnome-desktop-3-7.

gnome-desktop3 (3.10.1-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Make libgnome-desktop-3-8 break libgnome-desktop-3-7. Mixing both on one
    system is a recipe for disaster when using gnome-desktop via
    gobject-introspection.

gnome-desktop3 (3.10.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Sync with Ubuntu, bumped soname

gnome-desktop3 (3.8.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload to unstable.

gnome-desktop3 (3.8.4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Remove obsolete build dependency on gnome-doc-utils.

  [ Laurent Bigonville ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Prevent a crash with unknown language/country codes (Closes: #692453)
  * debian/control.in: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no further changes)
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:22:38 +1000

Changed in gnome-desktop3 (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-settings-daemon - 3.12.2-1ubuntu2

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gnome-settings-daemon (3.12.2-1ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/geoclue-build-fixes.patch: disable build of new
    datetime plugin since geoclue-2.0 is not currently in main.
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Oct 2014 07:45:02 +1000

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.12.1-5ubuntu2

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gnome-control-center (1:3.12.1-5ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/revert_automatic_timezone.patch: datetime plugin
    is disabled since it requires geoclue-2.0 which is in universe
 -- Tim Lunn <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Oct 2014 09:02:19 +1000

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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