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Erich Eickmeyer |
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| 2023-10-16 21:04:04 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
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| 2023-10-16 21:04:26 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
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added subscriber Simon Quigley |
| 2023-10-16 21:06:05 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
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yay.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-distro-release-notifier/+bug/2039492/+attachment/5710059/+files/yay.patch |
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| 2023-10-16 21:40:35 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
description |
[Impact]
This isn't really an impact to users, but is certainly an impact to Launchpad's servers. plasma-distro-release-notifier is an upgrade notifier for plasma desktops and is seeded in Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio. Its primary function is to notify users of a new upgrade available and when they will no longer receive updates to their current Ubuntu version. Since this impacts two flavors, for LTS versions, this is 3 years.
However, in its present form, plasma-distro-release-notifier gets its information from https://git.launchpad.net/plasma-distro-release-notifier/plain/eol.json?h=eol and checks that exact URL every login. This may have an impact on Launchpad's git servers.
Simon Quigley has been kind enough to patch plasma-distro-release-notifier to use Ubuntu's distro-info-data to grab the information from /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv while subtracting two years for LTS releases since Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio only support LTS releases for three years. Simon has also sent this patch upstream.
[Test Case]
* Simply install Ubuntu Studio or Kubuntu, any supported version.
* Upon login, plasma-distro-release-notifier will grab eol.json from git.launchpad.net via the above URL. This is not desired.
* Simon's patch removes this requirement and uses on-disk distro-info-data instead.
[Regression Potential]
This notifier was originally used in KDE Neon, and as such, had to be patched to work with Ubuntu. KDE Neon still would pull from KDE's servers to get the json file to calculate the EOL dates This patch does rewrite a lot of that code, but seems to be solid nonetheless.
Attached is a screenshot of 22.04 in a VM, set to normal upgrades, and being "tricked" into thinking it's about to go EOL via date rewrites in /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv and it seems to work wonderfully. |
[Impact]
This isn't really an impact to users, but is certainly an impact to Launchpad's servers. plasma-distro-release-notifier is an upgrade notifier for plasma desktops and is seeded in Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio. Its primary function is to notify users of a new upgrade available and when they will no longer receive updates to their current Ubuntu version. Since this impacts two flavors, for LTS versions, this is 3 years.
However, in its present form, plasma-distro-release-notifier gets its information from https://git.launchpad.net/plasma-distro-release-notifier/plain/eol.json?h=eol and checks that exact URL every login. This may have an impact on Launchpad's git servers.
Simon Quigley has been kind enough to patch plasma-distro-release-notifier to use Ubuntu's distro-info-data to grab the information from /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv while subtracting two years for LTS releases since Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio only support LTS releases for three years. Simon has also sent this patch upstream.
[Test Case]
* Simply install Ubuntu Studio or Kubuntu, any supported version.
* Upon login, plasma-distro-release-notifier will grab eol.json from git.launchpad.net via the above URL. This is not desired.
* Simon's patch removes this requirement and uses on-disk distro-info-data instead.
[What could go wrong]
This notifier was originally used in KDE Neon, and as such, had to be patched to work with Ubuntu. KDE Neon still would pull from KDE's servers to get the json file to calculate the EOL dates This patch does rewrite a lot of that code, but seems to be solid nonetheless.
Attached is a screenshot of 22.04 in a VM, set to normal upgrades, and being "tricked" into thinking it's about to go EOL via date rewrites in /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv and it seems to work wonderfully. |
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| 2023-10-16 21:48:41 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
| 2023-10-17 04:18:11 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Jammy |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:11 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
bug task added |
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plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Jammy) |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:11 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Mantic |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:11 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
bug task added |
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plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Mantic) |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:11 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Lunar |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:11 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
bug task added |
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plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Lunar) |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:17 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Lunar): status |
New |
In Progress |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:20 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Jammy): status |
New |
In Progress |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:23 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Jammy): importance |
Undecided |
High |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:25 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Lunar): importance |
Undecided |
High |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:27 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Jammy): assignee |
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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) |
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| 2023-10-17 04:18:29 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Lunar): assignee |
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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) |
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| 2023-12-07 17:18:02 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Noble |
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| 2023-12-07 17:18:02 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
bug task added |
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plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Noble) |
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| 2023-12-07 17:18:38 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Jammy): assignee |
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) |
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) |
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| 2023-12-07 17:18:46 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Lunar): assignee |
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) |
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) |
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| 2023-12-07 17:18:53 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Mantic): assignee |
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) |
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) |
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| 2023-12-07 17:19:01 |
Erich Eickmeyer |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Noble): assignee |
Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) |
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) |
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| 2024-01-25 20:36:16 |
Brian Murray |
plasma-distro-release-notifier (Ubuntu Lunar): status |
In Progress |
Won't Fix |
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