[Bug 1755490] Please test proposed package

[Brian Murray]

Hello Dariusz, or anyone else affected,

Accepted hwdata into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hwdata/0.290-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: hwdata (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags removed: verification-done-cosmic
** Tags added: verification-needed-cosmic

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Title:
  Incorrect information about display shown in gnome/unity-control-
  center

Status in hwdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in hwdata source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in hwdata source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in hwdata source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Committed
Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * There is a number of display devices that misuse the width & height field in EDID. Instead of real size in centimeters it contains encoded aspect ratio (e.g. 1600x900, 16x10, 160x90).
  This leads to incorrect calculation of diagonal for the purpose of e.g. Unity settings app.

  [Test Case]

   1. Connect a display device that provides incorrect EDID data (e.g. LG 49UB850T-DA TV).
   2. Open the Displays section of Unity settings.
   3. Look for the name of the newly connected display in the settings window.

  Expected result:
  Display name should contain its real diagonal or model name (if dimensions are not availabe).

  Actual result:
  Display name contains a ridiculous diagonal (e.g. 72" in case of a 49" display).

  [Regression Potential]

   * This affects the way the display name will be formatted for any
  software using unity-settings-daemon. If anything is testing/comparing
  display names - it may fail.

  [Other Info]

  * Original bug description:

  After connecting a LG 49UB850T-DA TV the following information is
  displayed in the unity-control-center: Goldstar Company Ltd 72"

  It's misleading since neither the company name nor the diagonal
  matches.

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