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plasma-discover package

[sru] missing depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt – breaks GUI upgrades to yakkety

Bug #1633692 reported by Rik Mills
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
plasma-discover (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Xenial
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Yakkety
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Zesty
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]

 * Current users running Xenial will be unable to upgrade to Yakkety via the GUI, due to missing package. The button to update basically does nothing.

 * Fixing this will allow the significant proportion of users likely to upgrade via the GUI route to do so.

 * The package ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt is a required component for GUI distribution upgrade in kubuntu, so reintroducing a dependency ensures this is installed by default for such users.

[Test Case]

 * In software sources set the default Release upgrade path to Normal to allow Xenial to Yakkety upgrade.

 * In plasma-discover when offered the upgrade click the 'Upgrade' button to accept.

 * As tested in up to date xenial, without ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt installed the upgrade does not launch - failing without any apparent error message to the user. In effect the button appears to do nothing.

 * With ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt the upgrade launches and continues as intended.

Tested and confirmed using the updated package in https://launchpad.net/~clivejo/+archive/ubuntu/xenial/+packages?field.name_filter=plasma-discover&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=xenial

[Regression Potential]

 * This is the installation a missing package via an updated dependency, which is only used during release upgrades. Therefore it is anticipated that the regression potential is minimal. We are restoring a package that was always intended to be installed.

[Original report:]

Xenial 16.04.1
plasma-discover (5.6.2-1ubuntu1)

Previously in wily muon-updater depended on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt, meaning this was installed by default.

In Xenial muon-updater became a transitional dummy package for plasma-discover-updater, and this dependency was not carried over, resulting in ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt not being installed by default and a GUI release upgrade to Yakkety 16.10 failing silently to the user after the 'Upgrade' button in software upgrades is clicked.

The bug is initially filed against plasma-discover, however it may be more appropriate to update dependencies of another package instead.

See original description
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
tags: added: yakkety
Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → High
importance: High → Critical
Clive Johnston (clivejo)
description: updated
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Clive Johnston (clivejo) wrote :

Debdiff to fix the issue in Xenial

Rik Mills (rikmills)
description: updated
Clive Johnston (clivejo)
description: updated
Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Clive Johnston (clivejo)
Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Critical
assignee: nobody → Clive Johnston (clivejo)
Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Yakkety):
importance: Critical → Low
Rik Mills (rikmills)
description: updated
Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
tags: added: patch
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Rik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted plasma-discover into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/5.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 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 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!

Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
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Clive Johnston (clivejo) wrote : Re: missing depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt - breaks GUI upgrades to yakkety

Debdiff for yakkety

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Clive Johnston (clivejo) wrote :

Test package in my PPa -https://launchpad.net/~clivejo/+archive/ubuntu/yakkety/+packages?field.name_filter=discover&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=yakkety

I don't know if we can situate an upgrade to Zesty, but a test would be to install this package on a Yakkety installation without the package ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt installed. Then install this updated plasma-discover package and make sure that ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt is installed afterwards.

Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount)
summary: - missing depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt - breaks GUI upgrades to
- yakkety
+ [sru] missing depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt – breaks GUI
+ upgrades to yakkety
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Clive Johnston (clivejo) wrote :

Debdiff for Zesty

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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

@clivejo: Adding a dependency to Discover that it doesn't need at all just to have that thing in the release is the wrong approach.
This IMO belongs into the Kubuntu metapackage instead.

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Rik Mills (rikmills) wrote :

Tested 5.6.2-1ubuntu1.1 from Xenial proposed.

Can confirm that fixes the issue here.

Rik Mills (rikmills)
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package plasma-discover - 5.7.5-0ubuntu3

---------------
plasma-discover (5.7.5-0ubuntu3) zesty; urgency=medium

  * Adding a depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt
    Closes (LP: #1633692)

 -- Clive Johnston <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:04:53 +0100

Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Zesty):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Rik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted plasma-discover into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-discover/5.7.5-0ubuntu2.1 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 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!

Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
tags: removed: verification-done
tags: added: verification-needed
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Aleix Pol (aleixpol-kde) wrote :

FWIW nothing was committed upstream.

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Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

leix Pol: It's distro-related stuff.

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Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

@ Aleix Pol: It's distro-related (specifically) stuff. <corrected previous typos>

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Artur Rona (ari-tczew) wrote :

I can confirm, that such fix resolves problem for xenial and yakkety.

Please upload a fix.

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

This bug was fixed in the package plasma-discover - 5.7.5-0ubuntu2.1

---------------
plasma-discover (5.7.5-0ubuntu2.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * Adding a depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt
    Closes (LP: #1633692)

 -- Clive Johnston <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:07:44 +0100

Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Yakkety):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for plasma-discover 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.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package plasma-discover - 5.6.2-1ubuntu1.1

---------------
plasma-discover (5.6.2-1ubuntu1.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Adding a depends on ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt
    Closes (LP: #1633692)

 -- Clive Johnston <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:35:26 +0100

Changed in plasma-discover (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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