[Bug 2059966] [NEW] Sponsorship: Upload gnome-online-accounts-gtk

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by fossfreedom (fossfreedom):

On behalf of Ubuntu Budgie please could you please consider sponsoring
this package for Noble.

I will separately pursue upload through Debian
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068200) - but given
the tight release timescales I would hope Ubuntu would consider this - I
will look after this package under the Ubuntu Budgie packageset rights
(to be requested via the DMB) for the LTS series

This application is key for the GTK3 desktops for Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu
Cinnamon, Ubuntu Unity and potentially for Ubuntu MATE and xubuntu.

I have a build in our PPA - built against noble-proposed for all
architectures

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie-dev/+archive/ubuntu/gnome-online-
accounts/+packages

The source and packaging is within this PPA - note the changelog has
~ppa suffix which needs removing before uploading to NEW

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Owner: David Mohammed (hidden)

Package name : gnome-online-accounts-gtk
Version : 3.50.1
Upstream Author : Linux Mint <root at linuxmint.com>
URL : https://github.com/linuxmint/gnome-online-accounts-gtk
License : GPL 3/3+
Programming Lang: C
Description : GUI Utility for logging into online accounts
Enter login details for some online services such as Google and Facebook.
This enables applications to access online services like email,
calendars, chat and documents.
.
This is a standalone application for desktop environments where
GNOME Online Accounts capability is not integrated in their equivalent
settings utility.

Details:
Upstream blog post https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4660

"GNOME Online Accounts, aka “GOA”, is a project which allows users to
connect to their data in the cloud. This project was only designed for
GNOME though so it doesn’t provide any front-end. It only provides
libraries (namely libgoa and libgoa-backend).

Other than GNOME, many desktop environments integrated a front-end to
these libraries in their control center: Cinnamon, Budgie, Unity, etc.

This project is important because it doesn’t just connect a desktop to
the cloud, it’s used by many applications and libraries. Among other
things you might use it to connect the Calendar application, the
Thunderbird email program or the file browser to your online data.

With GNOME 46, libgoa/libgoa-backend 3.50 moved to GTK4. It can no
longer be used by GTK3 applications.

To solve this problem a new XApp called GNOME Online Account GTK was
created. As any XApp its goal is to work for everybody, in any desktop
environment and in any Linux distribution.

This app makes it possible for Cinnamon/Budgie/Unity users to continue
to use this functionality. It also provides it to any desktop that
didn’t have access to it before (for instance: MATE and Xfce editions in
Linux Mint)."

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: needs-packaging noble
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