Bug#1107657: unblock: gnome-control-center/1:48.2-2

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Wed Jun 11 13:24:09 BST 2025


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

[ Reason ]
New upstream bugfix release

[ Impact ]
If not accepted, we'll be missing fixes for various upstream bugs, most
notably:
- some crashes
- System -> Remote Desktop can generate passwords that include offensive
  or distracting words such as racial slurs

[ Tests ]
Manually tested on a laptop and a VM, with an attempt to focus on the
areas that changed:
- clicked around various bits of UI, e.g. can toggle wifi and bluetooth
- Flatpak app Apps -> Chromium shows a "Required Permissions" bubble,
  .deb app Apps -> Chromium Web Browser does not show that bubble
  (gnome-control-center!3144)
- Apps -> Calculator -> go back -> Calculator does not crash
  (gnome-control-center#3455)
- System -> Remote Desktop -> Desktop Sharing -> Generate New Password
  used to generate shorter passwords containing punctuation;
  now it generates longer passwords with 5 capitalized words from the
  EFF "short" wordlist, e.g. AcrobatPenguinGimmickBuzzardOomph
  (gnome-control-center#3445)
- "LANGUAGE=ru gnome-control-center" wraps the longer labels in the
  sidebar (gnome-control-center#3400)
- Power Saver leaf icon matches gnome-shell
  (gnome-control-center#3446)
- Mouse and Touchpad shows rounded corners on scroll-direction
  illustrations (gnome-control-center!3085)

I don't have a suitable system to test gnome-control-center#3375
(LP: #2037076) but Ubuntu already applied this patch and seems happy
with it.

I don't know how to reproduce gnome-control-center#3402, #3405, !3126.
I don't have a Wacom tablet conveniently available for !3140.
I don't think I have apps that register global shortcuts for !3058, but
the change is trivial anyway.

[ Risks ]
Key package for our default desktop environment and high profile, but
the changes are all narrowly targeted. We can revert anything that
turns out to be problematic.

The change to how random passwords are generated is quite noisy, but
it's easy to test and seems desirable to have.

[ 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
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