I apologize that this SRU got stuck. After this SRU was verified for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but before it could be verified for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Flathub reverted the breaking changes. That left me unable to verify whether the proposed update fixed the issue. Eventually, Flathub re- applied the breaking changes but it took me a while to get back to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to test this again.
I verified the broken case with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The error message is different than in the bug description here but it is clearly broken. I then installed appstream-glib 0.7.16-1ubuntu2 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and verified that the error message no longer appears. I successfully completed the test case. ** Tags removed: removal-candidate verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream-glib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2023215 Title: [SRU] appstream-glib can't handle em or code tags, breaking Flathub Status in appstream-glib package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in appstream-glib source package in Focal: Fix Committed Status in appstream-glib source package in Jammy: Fix Released Bug description: [ Impact ] * Currently, any application that is using modern AppStream metadata containing <em>/<code> tags in their description, and that is still using the deprecated appstream-glib will fail to parse this data. * Unfortunately, this affects some high-visibility applications now, like Flatpak, which are unable to perform proper searches. See https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5434 for reference. * This kind of issue may potentially affect more tools as well. [ Test Plan ] 1. Open a terminal and run sudo apt install flatpak 2. Then run flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo 3. Run flatpak search meld The broken output may look something like: F: Failed to parse /var/lib/flatpak/appstream/flathub/x86_64/active/appstream.xml.gz file: Error on line 1960 char 29: <p> already set ' Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by ' and tried to replace with ' (' No matches found 4. Install the updated appstream-glib packages. 5. Restart your computer then log back in. 6. Open a terminal and run flatpak search meld The working output looks something like Name Description Application ID Version Branch Remotes Meld Compare and merge your files org.gnome.meld 3.22.0 stable flathub [ Where problems could occur ] * The reverse-dependencies for appstream-glib in Ubuntu Jammy are: flatpak-tests unity libmalcontent-ui-0-0 libappstream-glib-dev gir1.2-appstreamglib-1.0 appstream-util flatpak * Flatpak should continue to work, and there should be no new errors in GNOME/Unity. [ Other Info ] * None. Updating this should mainly help Flatpak users and should have no ill effects on any other component of the OS. * This issue was fixed upstream in appstream-glib 0.8.1 which is available in Ubuntu 22.10 and newer releases. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream-glib/+bug/2023215/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
