Desktop Team Updates - Monday 21st June 2021

[robert.ancell]

Hi everyone, below you will find the updates from the Desktop team 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 Updates - Monday 14th June 2021

[jibel]

• WSL
  • WSL DistroLauncher is now building on github.
  • New Desktop installer is running in WSL and will be used as the base for the graphical OOBE.
• ADSys
  • Debugged an issue where samba times out when it connects to AD due to missing TXT record in DNS.
  • Query SSSD to know the address of the AD Server when ad_server is not set in the configuration file.
  • Investigated why domain GPO are not downloaded when SSSD starts then …
  • … backported corresponding SSSD fixes for MS ADTS compliance to 20.04.
  • Testing, testing, testing …
• Ubiquity
  • Ported fixes made during ADSys testing to ubiquity/master to detect if there is local network only and remove the configuration of Kerberos when AD is selected
  • Corresponding SRU bugs have been submitted:
    • [Bug 1933095] [NEW] [SRU] AD option not available for network-only connection
    • [Bug 1933098] [NEW] [SRU] krb5-config is not needed for Active Directory support

[robert.ancell]

• +1 maintenance.
• Worked on sending file descriptors over Dart sockets.

[vanvugt]

• On leave all week. Caught up on bug reports [Backlog stats]

[didrocks]

• WSL
  • WSL DistroLauncher is now building on github.
  • New Desktop installer is running in WSL and will be used as the base for the graphical OOBE.
• ADSys
  • Debugged an issue where samba times out when it connects to AD due to missing TXT record in DNS.
  • Query SSSD to know the address of the AD Server when ad_server is not set in the configuration file.
  • Investigated why domain GPO are not downloaded when SSSD starts then …
  • … backported corresponding SSSD fixes for MS ADTS compliance to 20.04.
  • Testing, testing, testing …
• Ubiquity
  • Ported fixes made during ADSys testing to ubiquity/master to detect if there is local network only and remove the configuration of Kerberos when AD is selected
  • Corresponding SRU bugs have been submitted:
    • [Bug 1933095] [NEW] [SRU] AD option not available for network-only connection
    • [Bug 1933098] [NEW] [SRU] krb5-config is not needed for Active Directory support

[seb128]

• GNOME updates and Debian merges
• sponsoring
  • new vala version from ricots
  • update plymouth bgrt asset update from Muqtxdir
• snaps
  • rebuild some snaps to pick up USN fixes, tested candidate and promoted
  • fixed another snap-store regression leading to connectivity being denied by the portal, thanks @jamesh for helping!
• filed a MIR for libportal but didn’t add it to the review queue yet due to upstream discussions
• ported update-notifier to libayatana-appindicator, the change is waiting for review now
• transitioned extra packages to the ayatana indicators
• Changed gnome-bluetooth to fail build on tests error again now that we have an update python dbusmock
• Investigate why impish daily iso builds were failing, turned out to be initramfs switching to zstd and the builders lacking the depends

[laney]

• More tracker 3 updates, will publish it tomorrow to exp + impish after some testing, updating debian/copyright and a couple of other tidy ups
• +1 maintenance - have made a few things migrate so far
• Following up a bit with Julian about zstd deb compression; breaks appstream-generator, needs fixing
• Bit of investigation into this bad dbus/systemd interaction (LP)

[oSoMoN]

firefox

• prepared 89.0.1 update, now published to all supported releases
  • cherry-picked an upstream commit to fix video rendering on arm
• filed a bug to request rustc and cargo update for firefox 91
• filed an upstream bug to handle enterprise policies with the snap, and submitted an upstream change
• continued work on building the firefox snap from source in Launchpad
  • filed a related bug against Launchpad

thunderbird

• tested 78.11.0 against all supported releases and handed over to the security team

chromium

• updated stable to 91.0.4472.114
• updated beta to 92.0.4515.59
• updated dev to 93.0.4542.2

Ubuntu Desktop Installer

• merged WIP branch for guided storage page

other

• filed an upstream bug for a gnome-session-binary crash I experienced
• looked at the gedit 40 update

[till-kamppeter]

• CUPS Snap: For the cups printing interface @ijohnson has posted a pull request on snapd and a test package of snapd. I did a test as asked for in the initial posting and it works as expected (see my postings). Now we are waiting for the snapd team to merge the change.
• CUPS Snap: Updated to QPDF 10.3.2 and cups-filters 1.28.9.
• cups-filters: Released version 1.28.9 with the accumulated bug fixes and upgraded the CUPS Snap to that version, on the 2.x front I added capturing of stderr of the called filter executable for logging in the new filterExternalCUPS() filter function and also capturing of stderr of Ghostscript in the ghostscript() filter function. This way the stderr output gets correctly into the log file of a Printer Application instead of leaking into the syslog. Also received a patch to get cups-browsed more reliable and a GSoC student made therastertopdf() filter function work without PPD file .
• PostScript Printer Application: Continued on the support for CUPS filters used in PostScript PPD files, also in preparation for retro-fitting of actual CUPS drivers. Especially also added foomatic-rip to the Snap (for PIN-secured printing on Ricoh), added support for CUPS’ PPD extension for custom (string, integer, …) option settings, and added parameters like job UUID, date/time of submission/processing, … to external filter calls. With all this now all ~4000 PostScript printer PPD files which come with the Snap are fully functional, especially also supporting PIN-secured printing on HP and all Ricoh brands.
• Google Summer of Code 2021: Mentoring the students. First piece of code upstream!
• Bugs.

[callmepk]

Ubuntu WSL OOBE

• restart project to match current ubuntu-desktop-installer development.
• complete initial subiquity modification requirements.

[3v1n0]

Packaging

• Uploaded debian and ubuntu packages for mutter 40.2.1
• Uploaded to debian gnome-shell 40.2 (and re-merged local ubuntu one)
• Removed deprecated patch from gnome-desktop3
• Major cleanups for gnome-desktop3 packages and uploaded 40 for both debian and ubuntu
• Uploaded to debian (and synced) gobject-introspection 1.68
• Rewritten the appindicators build system using meson and uploaded the new version containing lots of new features and fixes to ubuntu

GNOME and friends

• Fixed an install issue for gobject-introspection [MR]
• Fixed the computation of available space in gnome-shell overview to be workarea-aware (to be dash-to-dock friendly) [MR]
• Lots of work on dash-to-dock to be compatible with GNOME 40 (the only missing bit to be able to upload gnome-shell too).