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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713176
Title:
[MIR] gnome-characters
Status in gnome-characters package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Availability
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Co-maintained and in sync with Debian GNOME.
Built for all supported architectures.
Rationale
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This app replaced gucharmap in core GNOME as of GNOME 3.20.
When this MIR is approved, gnome-characters will replace gucharmap in
the default Ubuntu install and gucharmap will be demoted to universe.
gucharmap is displayed as "Character Map". gnome-characters is
displayed as "Characters".
Requested by Ubuntu Desktop Team here:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2017-August/005093.html
See Background Information.
Security
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No known security issues
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gnome-characters
https://launchpad.net/gnome-characters/+cve
Uses gjs/mozjs which the Ubuntu Security Team reluctantly accepted into main
for gnome-shell
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#mozjs
Quality assurance
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- The Ubuntu Desktop Bugs team is subscribed.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-characters
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=gnome-characters
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A"gnome-todo";
No upstream tests or autopkgtests.
Dependencies
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No universe binary dependencies
Standards compliance
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4.1.1
Maintenance
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- Actively developed upstream. Last release was 3.26.1 last month.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-characters/log
The Debian source can be browsed at
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-characters/debian/
A (currently) out of date view is at
https://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-characters/unstable/debian/
It is planned to convert the packaging repo to Git this year or next.
Background information
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While gucharmap is a traditional Character Map app with a "traditional"
design, the GNOME Characters app has a GNOME3 design. gucharmap is a complete
Unicode 10 and font browser; the Characters app has a more focused scope on
trying to show useful categorized emoji, symbols and punctuation.
The Characters app is far more useful for browsing color emoji (an
expected Ubuntu 18.04 feature) than the traditional gucharmap.
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