[SRU] v1.0.2 service release for budgie-extras

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-extras - 1.0.2-1

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budgie-extras (1.0.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Service release (LP: #1881261)
    - See ChangeLog
  * Packaging Changes
    - update runtime dependencies for some applets and shuffler miniapp
      where runtime callouts to those executables are made
    - Drop trashsymlinks since incorporated into the current release

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Fri, 29 May 2020 10:19:18 +0100

Thank you for looking after budgie-extras in Focal!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#New_upstream_microreleases says that "it is also acceptable to upload new microreleases with many bug fixes without individual Launchpad bugs for each of them" but subject to specific criteria that includes "a reliable and credible test suite for assuring the quality of every commit or release".

I don't see any test suite apart from a code style checker, so don't think that's the case here? In that case, you either need individual SRU bugs for each individual fix, or alternatively "exceptions must still be approved by at least one member of the Ubuntu Technical Board".

I appreciate that it perhaps makes sense to review these changes as a whole and accept them wholesale, especially as comprehensive test suites for GUIs are especially challenging. However I don't believe that as an SRU team member I have the authority to accept this approach; my understanding is that it has to be a member of the Technical Board.

Is there a test suite I'm missing here? If not, then I suggest that you decide if you want to have individual bugs to be SRU-verified for each individual change you want to make, or if you want to ask a Technical Board member for an exception. I encourage you to do the latter if you think it makes sense.

Email to the technical board
Hi,

re below from Robie

> ask a Technical Board member for an exception

  please can I ask for an exception for our package budgie-extras
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1881261 (microrelease from v1.0.1 to
v1.0.2)

The background here is that budgie-extras is a series of applets that
the Ubuntu Budgie team have developed and and continue to maintain for
budgie-desktop users.

As we move forward to 20.10 we have backported a number of fixes that
have been reported to us via different distros, github, our support
forum etc. On the whole we don't use launchpad to track bugs.

This v1.0.2 microrelease is in use by a number of distros for a couple
of months now (https://repology.org/project/budgie-extras/versions).
The manual test suite is described in the issue SRU template itself.
These are fixed issues for GUI based applets to budgie-desktop and
cannot have automatic type tests - hence the manual test steps in the
SRU itself.

Happy to clarify - or just ping me via IRC

thx

David (Project Lead Ubuntu Budgie)

Reply from robie

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 03:08:26PM +0100, David Mohammed wrote:
> These are fixed issues for GUI based applets to budgie-desktop and
> cannot have automatic type tests - hence the manual test steps in the
> SRU itself.

Ah - sorry. Are you saying that you are covering _every_ change you're
making in the proposed SRU with a manual test that you will perform
during SRU verification? If so, sorry I didn't realise this was the case
- usually there'd be a separate bug reference for each one.

In that case, I don't think this is a TB item - we (SRU team) can just
accept that because it achieves the spirit of what the TB have said they
want.

Please could you confirm the above is correct, and if so, I can just
proceed, unless someone objects.

Robie

Response from myself to robie

Hi Robie,

  yes I can confirm that the SRU contains the complete test coverage
for all the backported issues for this microrelease.

David
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Hello fossfreedom, or anyone else affected,

Accepted budgie-extras into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-extras/1.0.2-0ubuntu1 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.

Tested extras 1.0.2-Oubuntu1 - did all the suggested tests. No regression occured, all tests were succesfull, only dropby did not open the usb after switching user.

I've independently also confirmed all the tests as well.

As to Jacob's observation - I'm happy with this in that there is no regression.

We'll look at Jacob's testing offline and resolve in a future v1.0.3 i.e. there is no immediate need to delay this microrelease.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for budgie-extras 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.

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-extras - 1.0.2-0ubuntu1

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budgie-extras (1.0.2-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Service release (LP: #1881261)
    - See ChangeLog
    - Source upload of Debian package v1.0.2-1 to focal series
  * Packaging Changes
    - update runtime dependencies for some applets and shuffler miniapp
      where runtime callouts to those executables are made
    - Drop trashsymlinks since incorporated into the current release

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Fri, 29 May 2020 10:19:18 +0100