[Bug 2103445] Please test proposed package

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hello Alessandro, or anyone else affected,

Accepted update-notifier into noble-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-
notifier/3.192.68.2 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-
noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-noble. 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.

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Title:
  Clicking 'Show updates' on the app indicator does not work

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in update-notifier source package in Noble:
  Fix Committed
Status in update-notifier source package in Oracular:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  When the apt repository cache is too long out-of-date, update-notifier
  shows a tray icon with message:

  "The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network
  problems or by a repository that is no longer available. Please update
  manually by selecting 'Show updates' from the indicator menu, and
  watching for any failing repositories."

  If you follow the instructions and click 'Show updates', nothing will
  happen and update-notifier crashes instead.

  This only happens in a Wayland desktop session.

  The following errors.ubuntu.com identifiers match this bug report:
  https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/8ca8669144fda26625647db60203296c89e15b26
  https://errors.ubuntu.com/problem/fcb15b0085c6db244a9750e2d8c9971c3ece02fe

  [ Test Plan ]

  1.  Install the update-notifier upgrade from -proposed.
  2.  Temporarily disable the daily updates timer with:
      $ sudo systemctl disable apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer
  3.  Mark the update cache as out-of-date with:
      $ sudo touch -d "10 days ago" /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp
  3.  Log-out and log-in again, into a Wayland session
  4.  Wait for at least 2 hours
  5.  Verify that a red icon appeared in the top-right system tray
  6.  Click the red icon
  7.  Click "Show updates"
  8.  Verify that the software updater window appeared
  9.  Verify that no crash report popup appeared
  10. Re-enable the daily updates timer with:
      $ sudo systemctl enable apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer

  [ Regression Test Plan ]

  Run through the same steps as the Test Plan above, but loggin-in to an
  Xorg session instead

  [ Where problems could occur ]

  The patch only modifies what happens when invoking an action from the
  tray icons in update-notifier that inform the user of some kind of
  error. The "cache out-of-date" tray icon is one of those that can be
  forced to appear with simple steps, as in the test plan.

  On Wayland, no regressions are expected: previously the process would crash and there isn't any worse than that.
  On Xorg, the Regression Test Plan will verify that the behaviour remains unchanged.

  For Wayland one sensitive point could be that, depending on the policy of the Wayland compositor, the software updater window might not get raised to the front after launching it from the "Show updates" menu item. This is not currently an issue for GNOME (Ubuntu Desktop), and all compositors will generally highlight in some way that there is a new window open even if it wasn't raised. I still expect all compositors to raise the new window though.
  Also, as mentioned, anything is better than a crash.

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