Bug#901308: accountsservice: Version 0.6.55 available

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

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On 23/09/2019 10:58, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 accountsservice: Version 0.6.55 available
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 at 10:27:07 +0200, Frederik Himpe wrote:
>> accountsservice 0.6.49 is available, fixing some memory leaks and improving
>> performance in specific situations. It would be nice to have this in Debian.
> 
> The current upstream version is now accountsservice 0.6.55. It's packaged in
> Ubuntu (LP: #1789502).
> 
> In particular, GNOME Shell 3.34 doesn't offer the "fast user switching"
> feature ("Switch User" in the system menu) unless accountsservice has the
> accounts_accounts_get_has_multiple_users() method, which according to the
> symbols file in Ubuntu was new in 0.6.50.

We have a few integration patches for user/group management in Debian that need
to be adapted to the new version. Perhaps some of that can be taken from Ubuntu
if they have already done the update. I don't have the time for this right now,
so any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Emilio