[SRU] Update gnome-shell to 3.36.7 in Focal

Detail of the extensions to be tested

gnome shell extensions to be tested with the SRU

Hello Amr, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/3.36.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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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.

The gse list contains some extensions that have already been broken since Focal release in April 2020. Theses are the ones that I know:

gnome-shell-extension-weather → LP: #1873661, LP: #1835706

gnome-shell-extension-onboard → got removed in Debian on 2020-01-09 because of incompatibility with recent versions of gnome-shell (https://tracker.debian.org/news/1092762/accepted-onboard-141-5-source-into-unstable/)

gnome-shell-extension-multi-monitors → LP: #1873789

gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect(-browsers) → very broken, only supports GNOME 3.30, Ubuntu-specific, hasn't been updated since 2019-01-08

I meant that my reply to comment #3 that those broken extensions should not be considered as regressions with gnome-shell 3.36.7 because they are already broken from the beginning.

All of those extensions are already up-to-date upstream and in Debian. It’s that Ubuntu is always ahead of Debian in GNOME releases when an Ubuntu release is about to happen and the Debian sync freeze is in effect. I explained that here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/scope-of-gnome-mru/18041/24?u=amr-ibrahim

Ah right, yes. I agree. Such a long list of extensions really should be expected to be broken already as extensions often are. I don't think it's sensible to block on those.

I have gnome-shell 3.36.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 installed from focal-proposed for three weeks now and my two-monitor setup is working great.
I have also the gnome-shell-extensions-gpaste installed and running without any problems.

Still blocked by bug 1908187 and bug 1886592

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.36.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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gnome-shell (3.36.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #1903764)
    - Fix potential stack overflow in libcroco
    - Fix system action search regressions
    - Fix week number alignment when using font-scaling
    - Misc. bug fixes and cleanups
  * debian/patches:
    - Refresh
    - Handle screenshot failures gracefully (LP: #1908187)

  [ Matthew Ruffell ]
  * authPrompt-Properly-get-oVirt-service-name.patch,
    authPrompt-set-value-of-beginRequestType-to-DONT_PROVIDE_.patch,
    gdm-Introduce-vmware-credential-manager-for-pre-authentic.patch,
    gdm-Refactor-oVirt-to-a-generic-CredentialManager-interfa.patch:
    - Enable support for VMware Horizon SSO to ensure compatibility
      with the Horizon Agent (LP: #1886592)

gnome-shell (3.36.6-1ubuntu0.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Merge with debian, containing new stable release (LP: #1896334)
  * debian/patches: Refresh, drop merged CVE-2020-17489.patch

gnome-shell (3.36.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload

  * New upstream release

gnome-shell (3.36.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * New upstream release
    - Fix password briefly showing on login dialog during logout if it
      was previously made visible (CVE-2020-17489, Closes: #968311)
  * Drop most patches, applied upstream

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:54:44 +0100

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.