Tested on Ubuntu Studio Jammy. Enabled proposed, switched from LTS to Regular Releases, updated ubuntustudio-desktop to 0.266.3. plasma- distro-release-notifier was pulled-in via recommends. Upon reboot, the notifier was displayed within the first minute.
** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Studio Bugs, which is subscribed to ubuntustudio-meta in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: UbuntuStudioPackages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1989611 Title: [SRU] plasma-distro-release-notifier for Jammy, Focal Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in plasma-distro-release-notifier package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntustudio-meta package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Focal: Fix Committed Status in plasma-distro-release-notifier source package in Focal: Fix Released Status in ubuntustudio-meta source package in Focal: Invalid Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Jammy: Fix Committed Status in plasma-distro-release-notifier source package in Jammy: Fix Released Status in ubuntustudio-meta source package in Jammy: Fix Committed Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Kinetic: Fix Released Status in plasma-distro-release-notifier source package in Kinetic: Fix Released Status in ubuntustudio-meta source package in Kinetic: Fix Released Bug description: [ Impact ] * The status-quo for current Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu users (all users of Ubuntu running the KDE Plasma Desktop) is that there is no mechanism to warn them of new releases. This is especially problematic for LTS releases when a new LTS release comes out, or if it is set to look for a new regular release. * This is resolved by a new package included in Kinetic - plasma- distro-release-notifier - which uses the backend of update-manager- common to identify whether or not a new version of Ubuntu has been released. [ Test Plan ] * Install Ubuntu Studio 22.04 -OR- Kubuntu 22.04 -OR- Kubuntu 20.04 * Notice 20.04 does not notify of a new release despite being set to "lts" in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. * For 22.04 releases, change /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades "Prompt=" line to "Prompt=normal" * Also, notice no prompt for updates on 22.04 releases. [ Where problems could occur ] * This will require introducing an entirely new package and adding the package to the kubuntu-desktop metapackage and the ubuntustudio- desktop metapackage for Jammy, and the kubuntu-desktop metapackage for focal. Things could go wrong if there is a failure to upgrade. * Additional failures can happen if the patch in d/patches of plasma- distro-release-notifier for the version number fails to point to the correct version number upon upload. This is easily fixed, but also something to keep an eye on and would be human error. [ Other Info ] * plasma-distro-release-notifier was initially tested to work inside of 20.04 with positive results. The same is expected for 22.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1989611/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs Post to : ubuntustudio-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntustudio-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
