[MIR] xdg-desktop-portal
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
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Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
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High
|
Ken VanDine | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Ken VanDine |
Bug Description
Availability
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In sync with Debian.
Built for all supported architectures.
Rationale
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Required for snaps.
Security
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No known security issues, but due to the nature of this package, a security review is probably needed.
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Quality assurance
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- The Desktop Packages bug team is subscribed.
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Upstream build tests (new) are run with dh_auto_test (failure would fail the build).
autopkgtests are passing
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Dependencies
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No universe binary dependencies
Standards compliance
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4.1.3
debhelper compat 11, dh 7 style simple rules
Maintenance
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- Actively developed upstream. Last release was 0.10 yesterday
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Well-maintained in Debian by Simon McVittie (Debian's Flatpak maintainer). Team-maintained.
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Background information
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xdg-desktop-portal was originally created to allow Flatpak apps to request access outside the sandbox. It's useful technology that can be used by Snap too, which simplifies work for app developers to support both next generation packaging formats. For instance, see https:/
See also the MIR xdg-desktop-
Presumably, we'll want to backport these packages to be snap dependencies in 16.04 LTS (maybe 14.04 LTS too).
tags: | added: bionic |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Nish Aravamudan (nacc) |
description: | updated |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in xdg-desktop-portal (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.