** Description changed: Availability ============ - Co-maintained with Debian GNOME. We would be in sync except that Debian is still at the older 3.22 version because of the Debian Stretch Freeze and delays getting mozjs52 in to Debian. - + Co-maintained and in sync with Debian GNOME. Built for all supported architectures. Rationale ========= 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 ======== 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 ================= - - The Ubuntu Desktop bugs team will need to subscribe to this package. + - 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 ============ No universe binary dependencies Standards compliance ==================== - 3.9.8 + 4.1.1 Maintenance =========== - - Actively developed upstream. Last release was 3.24.0 last month. + - Actively developed upstream. Last release was 3.26.1 last month. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-characters/log - The Debian 3.22 source can be browsed at - https://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-characters/3.22.0-1/debian/ - or at + The Debian source can be browsed at https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/gnome-characters/debian/ - It is planned to convert the packaging repo to Git this year. + A (currently) out of date view is at + https://sources.debian.net/src/gnome-characters/unstable/debian/ + + It is planned to convert the packaging repo to Git this year or next.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 ====================== 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 will be updated for 3.26 or 3.28 to better align with - the categories in GTK's new Emoji Chooser. + 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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