** Description changed:
Feature Freeze Exception Request
--------------
There are only 2 packages in Ubuntu main that use freerdp2: remmina and
gnome-remote-desktop. It is requested to switch both to freerdp3. Therefore
only one version of freerdp will be in main. freerdp2 will be demoted to
universe since many universe packages use it and are not prepared to switch to
freerdp3.
- This also requests updating gdm and gnome-control-center to fully enable
- the features of gnome-remote-desktop 46.
+ This also requests updating gnome-control-center to fully enable the
+ features of gnome-remote-desktop 46.
Impact
------
A headline feature of GNOME 46 is support as a Remote Desktop server without
requiring someone to already be logged in locally ("headless" mode). This
feature requires gnome-remote-desktop 46. gnome-remote-desktop 46 requires
freerdp3.
Impact if this does not happen
------------------------------
- We would need to patch gnome-control-center to use the older Remote Desktop
panel
- - We would need to keep using gnome-remote-desktop 45 instead of 46. The
gnome-remote-desktop upstream maintainers would be unhappy with this decision.
gnome-remote-desktop 45 was tested against Mutter 45. Changes in Mutter 46 may
require changes in gnome-remote-desktop for things to work well although a
simple test showed that basic remote desktop seems to work ok with the mismatch.
+ - We would need to keep using gnome-remote-desktop 45 instead of 46. The
gnome-remote-desktop upstream maintainers would be unhappy with this decision.
gnome-remote-desktop 45 was tested against Mutter 45. Changes in Mutter 46 may
require changes in gnome-remote-desktop for things to work well although a
simple test showed that basic remote desktop seems to work ok with the
mismatch. (See comment #1 from upstream developer.)
Why this did not land sooner
---------------------------
It required the packaging of a new source package freerdp3. And we had to do
this sooner than Debian. Sorry too many things to do before Feature Freeze and
this did not make it.
Affected Packages
-----------------
- gnome-remote-desktop 45 -> 46
- - gdm3 45 -> 46 (to support headless mode)
- gnome-control-center (to update the Remote Desktop settings page)
-
- remmina 1.4.34 -> 1.4.35 and swap build-depends. Remmina 1.4.34 did not
work with freerdp 3.3 in my testing
- gnome-connections (build-dependency swap): Not required by other changes
and not in Main but makes sense to switch it also
Affected Flavors
----------------
Only Ubuntu Desktop and Edubuntu ships gdm3, gnome-control-center,
gnome-remote-desktop. (Cinnamon 23.04 and daily 23.10 also ships
gnome-control-center but this appears to be a bug since they ship
cinnamon-control-center and is likely already fixed in noble-proposed)
Remmina is included in Ubuntu Desktop, Cinnamon, Kylin, and Unity.
gnome-connections has no reverse dependencies or recommends.
Upstream Changes
----------------
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/blob/46.rc/NEWS
https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/blob/rel/v1.4.35/CHANGELOG.md
-
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/blob/46.rc/NEWS
gnome-control-center 46~beta was already in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS before Feature
Freeze. It will be updated to 46.0. The relevant part here is whether we use
the 46~beta version of the Remote Desktop page or the 46.0 version.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/blob/46.rc/NEWS
Build Logs
----------
I have backported GNOME Shell 46 RC and GTK4 4.13 to the Ubuntu Desktop PPA.
The PPA currently has noble-proposed disabled so that it is easily possible to
try this set of packages without dealing with the incomplete 32-bit time
transition in noble-proposed. In addition, the PPA has the affected packages
from this FFe.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages
Testing Done
-------
1. From Ubuntu 23.10 client using Remmina, I was successfully able to connect
to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host using GNOME Shell 46 RC and GNOME Remote Desktop 46
RC. Remote control worked.
2. From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS client with Remmina 1.4.35 built with freerdp3,
I was able to connect to Ubuntu 23.10 host. Remote control worked.
3. From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS client with GNOME Connections 46 RC built with
freerdp3, I was able to connect to Ubuntu 23.10 host. Remote control
worked.
- None of those above tests tried the new headless mode. This means we
- have tested that existing functionality still works with the changes.
- The remainder of the testing is for the new feature.
-
- Testing To Do
- -------------
- Build gdm3 & gnome-control-center 46.rc and try the new headless mode
+ 4. I added a new Remote Login test case to
+ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/RemoteDesktop and verified
+ that remote login worked. Notably, enabling this changes the port for
+ the older service, now called "Desktop Sharing" to 3390. Since 3389 is
+ the default port, users would then need to manually specific port 3390
+ for Desktop Sharing in their remote connection app (Remmina, GNOME
+ Connections, etc.).
** Changed in: gnome-remote-desktop (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Changed in: remmina (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Description changed:
Feature Freeze Exception Request
--------------
There are only 2 packages in Ubuntu main that use freerdp2: remmina and
gnome-remote-desktop. It is requested to switch both to freerdp3. Therefore
only one version of freerdp will be in main. freerdp2 will be demoted to
universe since many universe packages use it and are not prepared to switch to
freerdp3.
This also requests updating gnome-control-center to fully enable the
features of gnome-remote-desktop 46.
Impact
------
A headline feature of GNOME 46 is support as a Remote Desktop server without
requiring someone to already be logged in locally ("headless" mode). This
feature requires gnome-remote-desktop 46. gnome-remote-desktop 46 requires
freerdp3.
Impact if this does not happen
------------------------------
- - We would need to patch gnome-control-center to use the older Remote Desktop
panel
+ - We would need to patch gnome-control-center to use the older Remote Desktop
panel (or at least hide the new tab for Remote Login)
- We would need to keep using gnome-remote-desktop 45 instead of 46. The
gnome-remote-desktop upstream maintainers would be unhappy with this decision.
gnome-remote-desktop 45 was tested against Mutter 45. Changes in Mutter 46 may
require changes in gnome-remote-desktop for things to work well although a
simple test showed that basic remote desktop seems to work ok with the
mismatch. (See comment #1 from upstream developer.)
Why this did not land sooner
---------------------------
It required the packaging of a new source package freerdp3. And we had to do
this sooner than Debian. Sorry too many things to do before Feature Freeze and
this did not make it.
Affected Packages
-----------------
- gnome-remote-desktop 45 -> 46
- gnome-control-center (to update the Remote Desktop settings page)
- remmina 1.4.34 -> 1.4.35 and swap build-depends. Remmina 1.4.34 did not
work with freerdp 3.3 in my testing
- gnome-connections (build-dependency swap): Not required by other changes
and not in Main but makes sense to switch it also
Affected Flavors
----------------
Only Ubuntu Desktop and Edubuntu ships gdm3, gnome-control-center,
gnome-remote-desktop. (Cinnamon 23.04 and daily 23.10 also ships
gnome-control-center but this appears to be a bug since they ship
cinnamon-control-center and is likely already fixed in noble-proposed)
Remmina is included in Ubuntu Desktop, Cinnamon, Kylin, and Unity.
gnome-connections has no reverse dependencies or recommends.
Upstream Changes
----------------
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/blob/46.rc/NEWS
https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/blob/rel/v1.4.35/CHANGELOG.md
gnome-control-center 46~beta was already in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS before Feature
Freeze. It will be updated to 46.0. The relevant part here is whether we use
the 46~beta version of the Remote Desktop page or the 46.0 version.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/blob/46.rc/NEWS
Build Logs
----------
I have backported GNOME Shell 46 RC and GTK4 4.13 to the Ubuntu Desktop PPA.
The PPA currently has noble-proposed disabled so that it is easily possible to
try this set of packages without dealing with the incomplete 32-bit time
transition in noble-proposed. In addition, the PPA has the affected packages
from this FFe.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages
Testing Done
-------
1. From Ubuntu 23.10 client using Remmina, I was successfully able to connect
to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host using GNOME Shell 46 RC and GNOME Remote Desktop 46
RC. Remote control worked.
2. From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS client with Remmina 1.4.35 built with freerdp3,
I was able to connect to Ubuntu 23.10 host. Remote control worked.
3. From Ubuntu 24.04 LTS client with GNOME Connections 46 RC built with
freerdp3, I was able to connect to Ubuntu 23.10 host. Remote control
worked.
4. I added a new Remote Login test case to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/RemoteDesktop and verified
that remote login worked. Notably, enabling this changes the port for
the older service, now called "Desktop Sharing" to 3390. Since 3389 is
the default port, users would then need to manually specific port 3390
for Desktop Sharing in their remote connection app (Remmina, GNOME
Connections, etc.).
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