Bug#1032580: unblock: gnome-initial-setup/43.2-4

[Simon McVittie]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
X-Debbugs-Cc: gnome-initial-setup at packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:gnome-initial-setup

Please unblock package gnome-initial-setup

[ Reason ]
Fix UI glitches observed while testing fixes for #1029821

[ Impact ]
If not fixed, the full-screen "out of box experience" app shown on the
first login to GNOME, after initial installation or creating a new user,
is less polished than it should be.

The main fix since bookworm is that for users in locales that use a
non-trivial IBus input method rather than a simple Xkb keyboard layout
(Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, etc.), the default input method was mislabelled
and did not always appear. (#1032382)

This version also has an upstream change backported from upstream version
44.rc, fixing a regression that caused the shortlist of plausible
non-default keyboard layouts and input methods to be empty. There is
still a known bug that the shortlist is not very *useful* (it does not
have enough information to be weighted towards commonly-used keyboard
layouts and input methods for the relevant country, and away from
rare/specialized layouts like Dvorak), but that's not a regression and
it's better than nothing.

It also includes smaller tweaks to ensure the gnome-initial-setup window
is appropriately labelled in Alt+Tab and the Overview.

[ Tests ]
Manually tested via the steps in debian/README.source of unstable's
gnome-initial-setup, using English and Japanese locales.

Also carried out an installation of bookworm in Japanese (using a
parallel installation in English as a reference for which button does
what) and before logging in to GNOME for the first time, logged in via
tty to upgrade gnome-initial-setup and all packages from src:gnome-desktop
to their unstable versions.

[ Risks ]
This is a highly visible package with code that is surprisingly
fragile internally, and my initial attempt at this patchset caused it
to crash; but I expect that a lot of people will be testing new GNOME
installs between now and release day, so we'll get regression reports
if appropriate.

[ Checklist ]
  [x] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
  [x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
  [x] attach debdiff against the package in testing

unblock gnome-initial-setup/43.2-4
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