include oem descriptor in internal webkit user agent string

[Michael Vogt]

In order to make it easier to know what people are on what release and also to gather data about the oem image in use, we would like to include the user agent in the embedded webkit browser.

TEST CASE:
- regression test with a purchase is enough, nothing should change for the user

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Subscribing the SRU team, the diff is here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mvo/software-center/oem-descriptor-in-user-agent-5.2/+merge/121615

If that can go in as a SRU I would like to propose if for merging.

[David Pitkin (dpitkin)]

This is a small User Agent addition that will give us the ability to split out OEM preinstall banner traffic from downloaders.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

I've rejected the software-center SRU from the precise-proposed queue, as bug #1006570 and bug #1042279 have been waiting for test cases and regression potential for over a month now.

Once these bugs have the necessary information for an SRU, please ping me or another an SRU team member in #ubuntu-release and we can fish it out of the rejected queue.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Michael, or anyone else affected,

Accepted software-center into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/5.2.7 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 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, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

"Bought" knightstour (0€) just fine, and logging in via the browser looked normal.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been 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 regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 5.2.7

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software-center (5.2.7) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * lp:~mvo/software-center/oem-descriptor-in-user-agent-5.2:
    - include the oem-channel descriptor in the custom user agent
      string (LP: #1042749)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/auto-fill-email-for-login:
    - allow auto-fill of the email in login.ubuntu.com if
      we have it (LP: #1042279)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/fix-memleak-5.2:
    - fix two memory leaks when the cache is re-opened after
      a package has been installed/removed (LP: #1003466)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/region-whitelist-5.2:
    - fix missing region whitelist support that is used by
      the software-center-agent (LP: #1006570)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/downloader-fix-race839462-again-5.2:
    - fix a race condition in the SimpleFileDownloader when the file
      is downloaded but the signal did not get delivered yet by the
      gtk event loop (LP: #1055441)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:39:43 +0200