SRU the current 2.3.6 stable update

This doesn't really seem to be a bugfix only release? It's not clear to me how introducing a new “tracker export” command is a bugfix - I could be persuaded of this, as it sounds from the NEWS item that it might be required for future upgrades?

Hey Chris, thanks for the review.

The GNOME maintainers sometime has a somewhat flexible definition of what is a bugfix indeed.

The command has been added to help migrations from tracker2 to the new tracker3, it's not strictly something we need in focal but at the same time it's a new option so has no regression potential and it could help LTS users to work on their tracker database migration for futur Ubuntu versions.
I've updated the description to mention that, let me know if you think it's enough there?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker/-/commit/30ceebf0

Hello Sebastien, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tracker into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/2.3.6-0ubuntu1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. 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.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tracker (2.3.6-0ubuntu1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

tracker/2.3.6-0ubuntu1 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#tracker

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

The 2.3.6-0ubuntu1 update works as described

This bug was fixed in the package tracker - 2.3.6-0ubuntu1

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tracker (2.3.6-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version (lp: #1896073)
  * debian/rules:
    - build without Bsymbolic and strip Bsymbolic-function, fixes the
      tracker search hanging (lp: #1861358)
  * tracker.install: Drop XDG autostart file for tracker-store. Dropped
    upstream, tracker uses DBus activation. Include new manpage

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:03:10 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for tracker 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.