unity-control-center in installed software is listed with wrong icon and title

[joshas]

[Impact]
In Ubuntu Software under Installed programs the listing for gnome-control-center package has title "Wacom Tablet" and tablet icon.
This is dangerously confusing, as average user can easily remove control center without knowing it.
I propose disabling gnome-control-center removal from Ubuntu Software by moving it to "System Applications" section.

[Test Case]
1. From a terminal run:
$ gnome-software --details-pkg unity-control-center

Observed result:
The title/description is from one of the panels inside u-c-c, e.g. "Wacom Tablet" or "Universal Access".

Expected result:
The title and description should be for unity-control-center.
NOTE: This requires the appdata to be updated and re-downloaded before this can occur.

[Regression Potential]
Low, we now just distribute appdata information.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

The package is unity-control-center not gnome-control-center and seems to be due to missing appstream data.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Ping!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-control-center - 15.04.0+17.04.20170213-0ubuntu1

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unity-control-center (15.04.0+17.04.20170213-0ubuntu1) zesty; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * user-accounts: Reset the AccountsService password mode when setting
    the password. There's a codepath for directly setting the password
    when the user is setting their own, but this doesn't set the AS mode
    back to ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_REGULAR. If you don't change this and
    you're in ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_NONE, then you end up staying in
    the nopasswdlogin group. (LP: #1630156)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Add AppData (LP: #1639507)

 -- <email address hidden> (<email address hidden>) Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:04:53 +0000

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

Accepted unity-control-center into -proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/15.04.0+16.10.20170214-0ubuntu1 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, 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!

[Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)]

I tested this on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with gnome-software 3.20.1+git20170208.0.a34b091-0ubuntu1~xenial1 (still in xenial-proposed today). I enabled -proposed updates. unity-control-center shows in gnome-software as "Text Entry" on my computer. Ok, maybe I should install the updated unity-control-center (I think if this bug were fixed, that wouldn't actually be necessary).

I installed the updated unity-control-center, ran 'pkill gnome-software' and tried again. Same result.

I ran 'sudo rm -rf /var/cache/app-info; sudo rm -rf /var/lib/app-info; sudo appstreamcli refresh'. After killing gnome-software, I got the same result.

See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/779379

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Does appstreamcli generate local appstream data or just pull it from the server again? I'm not sure if this change requires a server-side refresh of the appstream data.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

That's automatic and you can check it by just looking at the archive. I did not look in this case to see if it is right, but it was in the previous case (wine?).

I think someone should see my comment #4 on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779379

[Mathew Hodson (mhodson)]

unity-control-center is still in xenial-proposed at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-control-center/15.04.0+16.04.20170214-0ubuntu1

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

As part of a recent change in the Stable Release Update verification policy we would like to inform that for a bug to be considered verified for a given release a verification-done-$RELEASE tag needs to be added to the bug where $RELEASE is the name of the series the package that was tested (e.g. verification-done-xenial). Please note that the global 'verification-done' tag can no longer be used for this purpose.

Thank you!

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Tested version 15.04.0+16.04.20170214-0ubuntu1, it doesn't solve this issue though.
However marking this as verification-done as per Iain's words:

16:18:55 <Laney> Trevinho: I think that verification-failed could be verification-done-xenial. The change works, it just happens to not fix the bug.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

If unity-control-center is released then the task will be marked as Fix Released for this bug. How is that appropriate if the bug isn't really fixed?

[Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)]

Brian, we can easily reopen this bug for xenial.

Because of how the appstream metadata works, it's difficult to test a fix before uploading an attempt to -proposed.

[Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)]

I verify that this bug is fixed now for unity-control-center from xenial-proposed. I think the other half of this bug was fixed in gnome-software.

[Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)]

I also verified that this bug is fixed for unity-control-center 15.04.0+16.10.20170204-0ubuntu1 on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10. I installed unity-control-center and it shows in the Installed tab of GNOME Software with the correct name and icon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-control-center - 15.04.0+16.10.20170214-0ubuntu1

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unity-control-center (15.04.0+16.10.20170214-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * user-accounts: Reset the AccountsService password mode when setting
    the password. There's a codepath for directly setting the password
    when the user is setting their own, but this doesn't set the AS mode
    back to ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_REGULAR. If you don't change this and
    you're in ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_NONE, then you end up staying in
    the nopasswdlogin group. (LP: #1630156)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Add AppData (LP: #1639507)

 -- <email address hidden> (<email address hidden>) Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:16:44 +0000

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity-control-center 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 regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-control-center - 15.04.0+16.04.20170214-0ubuntu1

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unity-control-center (15.04.0+16.04.20170214-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * user-accounts: Reset the AccountsService password mode when setting
    the password. There's a codepath for directly setting the password
    when the user is setting their own, but this doesn't set the AS mode
    back to ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_REGULAR. If you don't change this and
    you're in ACT_USER_PASSWORD_MODE_NONE, then you end up staying in
    the nopasswdlogin group. (LP: #1630156)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Add AppData (LP: #1639507)

 -- <email address hidden> (<email address hidden>) Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:17:30 +0000