Please add malcontent to the ubuntu-desktop packageset for noble

Utkarsh Gupta utkarsh.gupta at canonical.com
Thu Oct 30 14:17:45 UTC 2025


Hi Alessandro,

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM Alessandro Astone
<alessandro.astone at canonical.com> wrote:
> Now that the ubuntu-desktop packageset is mostly up-to-date for
> questing, I wrote a little script to verify if the other stable release
> packagesets need updating too.
> My script only found one source package missing in noble: malcontent.
>
> malcontent was MIRd after the noble release, which I can see being a
> reason for why it was missed.
> None of its binaries are pre-installed in Ubuntu Desktop, but they're
> seeded as 'supported' because some OEM configs pre-install it to comply
> with European regulations on parental controls.
>
> Please add src:malcontent to the ubuntu-desktop packageset for noble,
> reflecting the fact that it is in main, primarily used in GNOME, and
> already in the ubuntu-desktop packageset for questing.

Thank you - it makes so much sense. Added.


- u



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