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gnome-shell package

Update gnome-shell to 42.1

Bug #1973373 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
Jammy
Fix Released
High
Jeremy Bícha

Bug Description

Impact
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There is a new bugfix release in the stable 42 series.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/blob/42.1/NEWS

Test Case 1
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sudo apt install gnome-session gnome-shell-extensions
Install the update.
Log out.
Select your name on the login screen.
Click the gear button to choose a session to log in to.
Finish logging in.

Verify that things continue to work well for all these sessions:
GNOME
GNOME Classic
Ubuntu
Ubuntu on Xorg

Test Case 2
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Because a GNOME Shell update years ago broke some GNOME Shell extensions, it's also requested that we do a basic test of all the extensions included in the Ubuntu repositories.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/removal-of-gnome-shell-extension-from-universe-and-stop-auto-syncs/18437/9

Install all the extensions.
Log out and then log back in.
Use one of the Extensions apps to enable all the extensions.
Verify that they can all be enabled without showing an error.

What Could Go Wrong
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GNOME Shell is the heart of the Ubuntu desktop experience.

A severe enough bug could mean that people are unable to use their desktop version of Ubuntu.

Smaller bugs could interrupt people's workflows.

GNOME Shell is included in the GNOME micro release exception

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/GNOME

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Jammy):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 42.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-shell (42.1-0ubuntu1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1973373, LP: #1968911)
  * Drop patches applied in new release

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Fri, 13 May 2022 16:32:49 -0400

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/42.1-0ubuntu0.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I installed gnome-shell 42.1-0ubuntu0.1

I installed and enabled the GNOME Shell extensions from https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/removal-of-gnome-shell-extension-from-universe-and-stop-auto-syncs/18437/9 and verified that they were all able to be activated and appeared to work.

I logged into these sessions and things appeared to work:
GNOME
GNOME Classic
Ubuntu
Ubuntu on Xorg

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-jammy
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-jammy
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 42.1-0ubuntu0.1

---------------
gnome-shell (42.1-0ubuntu0.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1973373, LP: #1968911)
  * Drop patches applied in new release

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 16 May 2022 08:21:57 -0400

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-shell has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.

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