Bug#1107570: unblock (pre-approval): gnome-desktop/44.3-3

[Simon McVittie]

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

[ Reason ]

New upstream bugfix release

[ Impact ]

Using U+2236 RATIO rather than U+003A COLON for the separator between 
hours, minutes and seconds can cause mis-display in RTL locales such as 
Arabic and Hebrew, which is why the GNOME HIG (human interface 
guidelines) stopped recommending it. This version goes back to using 
U+003A COLON for better RTL support.

The most important upstream change (significantly improving the 
performance of gnome-control-center's backgrounds page) was already 
cherry-picked as a Debian patch; now it's using the unmodified upstream 
code.

[ Tests ]

A functionally equivalent package is available in experimental and seems 
to work fine on my laptop.

There is some automated test coverage but it's rather basic. The 
"reftest" coverage for time formatting was removed in this update: it 
was only useful when gnome-desktop was replacing COLON with RATIO, which 
it no longer does.

[ Risks ]

As a core GNOME component this is a key package.

All of the changes are narrowly targeted and would be easy to revert. 
I've preemptively reverted one change (swapping the default input method 
for the zh_HK locale) while asking advice from the -l10n-chinese list.

[ 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
      - this is for the package in experimental, what I'm proposing is
        an upload to unstable differing only in the changelog

[ Other info ]

If the -l10n-chinese team indicates that we should be following 
upstream's switch from ibus-table-cangjie5 to ibus-cangjie, that will 
most likely be a separate unblock request (dropping the patch that 
reverts it).
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