Bug fixes are normally uploaded to the development release so that users will get the fix when updating to the next release. As in this case, the bug also exists in the still supported stable releases (Xenial and Trusty), it is necessary to follow the Stable Release Update (SRU) process in order to fix the problem in those releases.
The process is explained here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates This process involves updating the bug report description and make sure it contains the following types of information: - An explanation and justification for backporting the fix to the stable release. - A [Test Case] section with detailed instructions how to reproduce the bug. - A [Regression Potential] section with a discussion about potential regressions Then two patches that fix the problem are required, one for Xenial, and one for Trusty. The process will then ensure that there will be no serious regressions for users of the Stable releases. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gtk+3.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1714518 Title: GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE/GVFS, smb (SMB/CIFS), sftp (SFTP/SSH) network shares in file chooser Status in GTK+: Fix Released Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Trusty: Triaged Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Xenial: Triaged Status in gtk+3.0 source package in Artful: Won't Fix Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Install any Gtk3 application such as Firefox or Chromium which use modern file-chooser dialog. 2. Mount network location through fstab or file-manager ("smb://" = SMB/CIFS, "sftp://"; = SFTP/SSH and so on) 3. Try to save/open file to/from the remote location from Gtk3 application. Expected results: * user is able to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with GtkFileChooser dialog Actual results: * user is unable to find network folder and save/open file to/from it with GtkFileChooser dialog and many user applications are affected ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original bug description is below: GTK+3 doesn't show FUSE network shares in file chooser - it used to do so in GTK+2, and the GTK+3 documentation still mentions it should do it. In the mean time, every user of every application switching to GTK+3 -- including Chromium, at some point between 58 and 60 -- (a change which happened in 16.04 LTS!!), loses the functionality to open or save directly to a network share. I had chosen 16.04 LTS for deploying our workstations at work, and my 50 users have been suddenly unable to do a simple operation they have to do dozens of times a day. They now have to "buffer" these files to their local filesystem when saving them and before uploading them, and then copy them to the company's network shares. They were already a little bit grumpy when it stopped working with Firefox, and are now really side-eyeing me when they apply updates and find Chromium broken. I have reported the bug upstream and provided a patch to fix this. I hope you'll be able and willing to include it to Ubuntu's GTK+3 package. Thanks in advance. Colin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/1714518/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
