Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 24th February 2025

jbicha · February 21, 2025, 3:29pm

Hi everyone, below you will find updates from the Desktop team’s Integration squad from the last week. If you’re interested in discussing a topic please start a thread in the Desktop area of Discourse .

Last week’s notes are here: Desktop Team Integration Squad Updates – Monday 17th February 2025

jbicha · February 21, 2025, 4:41pm

Vendored the Papers app as required by current Ubuntu MIR team policy for Rust apps
Wrote a manual test plan for Papers since it currently doesn’t have automated tests
The MIR for Papers passed the non-security checks but it needs a Ubuntu Security team review before we can switch from Evince to Papers for Ubuntu Desktop 25.04
Began the libimobiledevice transition after the required MIR was approved
Began the tracker->tinysparql transition for Debian and Ubuntu
Filed MIR re-review paperwork for tinysparql and localsearch (what tracker-miners is being renamed to) because the MIR team now wants re-reviews for renamed source packages if the previous MIR was completed long ago.
Began integrating xdg-terminal-exec for Ubuntu Desktop 25.04 after its MIR was approved
Cherry-picked gnome-terminal and ptyxis fixes for this feature, after manual testing revealed that their integration had issues.
Updated Ubuntu’s NetworkManager package to 1.52 RC
Reported an apparmor regression for sbuild unshare and triaged a regression for wifi. These only affected Ubuntu 25.04 and have already been fixed.
Adopted the Enter TeX app for the Debian GNOME team after Andreas Tille began the salvaging process. Enter TeX is very closely associated with the gedit packages which are maintained by the Debian GNOME team already. Enter TeX was previously known as GNOME LaTeX and Latexila
Helped with getting the Cantarell font switch to the variable version change into Debian and Ubuntu 25.04
Miscellaneous other packaging updates and sponsoring as we entered Feature Freeze for Ubuntu 25.04 early today

Highlighted work from others

Seb updated our gst-plugins-good1.0 & gst-plugins-bad1.0 patches. Ubuntu 25.04 now has a development version of what will soon be gstreamer 1.26.
Simon McVittie completed filing the bugs for GNOME Shell 48 packaged extensions. Getting this list closer to done is a blocker for the GNOME Shell 48 transition for Debian Trixie. The other blocker is a mutter autopkgtest failure we haven’t investigated yet.
Ubuntu’s Initial Setup app now supports installing language packs

vanvugt · February 24, 2025, 6:52am

Fixed new Mutter merge conflicts (1, 2) caused by triple buffering landing last week.
Debugged a multi-GPU regression in GNOME 48 and 47.5; secondary (integrated) GPU screens not lighting up when Nvidia is primary. Proposed a fix now landed in 48.rc. Also proposed for 47.6.
Helped Jeremy document the libva MIR.
Pushed a fix for the broken screen magnifier in GNOME 48.beta.
Generalised and expanded the VKMS tests fix to cover more test cases.
Packaged a Plymouth fix for Alfonso.
Continued debugging to figure out why fullscreen direct scanout stutters so much when it has less work to do than in compositing. Made good progress toward being able to blame the i915 driver.
PSA - Plucky daily images are installable again starting with 20250223. Seb fixed the crashing installer!
Lots of bug triage and user support in Launchpad and upstreams. The new vertical line in the chart is most of Ubiquity’s bugs being closed by tsimonq2: