[Systems] Release Meeting 2012-03-16

Andrea Cimitan andrea.cimitan at canonical.com
Fri Mar 16 11:48:21 UTC 2012


Only reporting sections worth having a look, no blocking items.
Weekly releases, focusing on bugfixing.

=== Summary of bugs ===
  * light-themes
   - usual bugfixing and constant refinement
  * indicators
   - Fixed indicator-appmenu's build for jenkins #949425
   - Removed the idoscale offscreen buffer to fix #886335, #906050, 
#524541, #874431, #945558
   - Merged user-reported memory leak fix in indicator-application #953585
   - Fixed indicator-sound being incorrectly restored on unmute #921065
   - Fixed ido slider mouseclick issue #898611
   - WIP progress on refinements to indicator-datetime's location list 
(though this may be for next cycle) #833325
   - Fixed potential uint8 overflow in indicator-application reported by 
Coverity #944234
   - Fixed indicator-sound playlists crash #952550 and #946607
   - Fixed indicator-sound potential segfault #944148
   - Fixed indicator-sound potential segfault when dbus is not available 
#921755
   - Fixed indicator-messages #939953 and #770486
  * settings
   - Fixed bugs around bluetooth handling on the sound panel of control 
centre #946375 and #940282
  * printing
   - cups-filters: Added workarounds to the pdftops filter (PostScript 
printer driver) for PostScript interpreter bugs in all Kyocera and 
Brother printers which make these printers not printing Ghostscript's 
PostScript output #950713 and #951627. Thanks to the reporters of the 
bugs and Chris Liddell from Ghostscript upstream for near two days of 
work to find the workarounds
   - cups-filters: Fixed infinite loop in parallel port CUPS backend #936647
   - cups: Update on the IPP backend from upstream, should fix most 
problems with printing on IPP printers and servers. Thanks to CUPS 
author Mike Sweet for the backport
   - Triaged cups and system-config-printer bugs, fixed crash #447027
  * utouch
   - Uploaded fix for inverted horizontal scrolling #932439
   - Multiple bugfixing in grail and geis, most around tap handling
   - Fixed a particularly nasty geis test segfault only seen in PPAs #956538
   - Finished geis gesture accept/reject and merged upstream #934207
   - Memory leak in utouch-grail #955131 Atomic subscription gesture 
handling #949916

~~~

List of remaining exceptions.

=== FFe ===
  * Geis grail gesture accept/reject
   - Bug to fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/utouch-geis/+bug/934207
   - Not "required", but really needs to be in 12.04
   - A separate FFe bugreport will be filed and linked to this fix.



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