Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected, Accepted gnome-characters into kinetic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- characters/43.1-0ubuntu1 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- kinetic to verification-done-kinetic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-kinetic. 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. ** Changed in: gnome-characters (Ubuntu Kinetic) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-kinetic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-characters in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1999100 Title: Update gnome-characters to 43.1 Status in gnome-characters package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-characters source package in Kinetic: Fix Committed Bug description: NOTE TO SRU TEAM ================ Please accept the glib2.0 SRU first. To enable the new feature to work best, I have added a Build-Depends (which results in a Depends) on the new glib version. Impact ------ There is a new bugfix release in the stable 43 series https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-characters/-/blob/43.1/NEWS This adds one new feature: new emoji and Unicode characters from Unicode 15. Test Case 1 ----------- Install the update Open the Characters app. Select an emoji character and click Copy Character Paste the emoji somewhere. You should see the emoji you pasted. Test Case 2 ------------------- Open the Characters app. Use the search feature to search for "moose" A moose emoji should show up. This is one of the new Emoji 15. https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-15-0/ (This is Test Case 3 (Extra) from https://launchpad.net/bugs/1999098) What Could Go Wrong ------------------- GNOME Characters is part of GNOME Core and falls under the GNOME Stable Release Update microrelease exception https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/GNOME It is installed by default in Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Budgie. Other Info ---------- Unicode 15 enablement was granted a User Interface Freeze Exception for Ubuntu 22.10: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1989626 glib and gnome-characters are the only 2 late pieces that the Ubuntu Desktop team plans to SRU for Ubuntu 22.10. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-characters/+bug/1999100/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
