Re: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] malcontent: update 1.13.1 -> 1.14.0

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 2:45 AM Markus Volk via lists.openembedded.org
<[email protected]> wrote:

> - add missing dependencies
> - fetch missing subprojects
> - LIC_FILES_CHKSUM has changed but LICENSE is still LGPL-2.1
>
> Overview of changes in malcontent 0.14.0
> ========================================
>
> * Bugs fixed:
>   - #89 After reworking user selector and navigation, removing currently
> viewed
>     users isn't handled (Philip Withnall)
>   - #101 Integrate NSS web filtering module in flatpak (Philip Withnall)
>   - #122 Allow viewing screen time usage when using malcontent-control as a
>     child user (Philip Withnall)
>   - #129 Hide level bar if there’s no data available yet
>   - #133 EstimatedTimesChanged signal is not emitted after a screen time
>     extension request is granted (Philip Withnall)
>   - !292 docs: Add diagram and some more notes to screen time design
> document
>   - !293 malcontent-client: Improve some error messages for invalid command
>     lines
>   - !294 build: Post-release version bump
>   - !295 po: Fix a few localisation problems
>   - !296 Update Chinese translation
>   - !297 docs: Add a diagram of web filtering IPC
>   - !298 Update Czech translation
>   - !299 updated ru.po
>   - !300 Replace sl.po with translation update
>   - !305 Update Czech translation
>   - !306 Update Chinese translation
>   - !307 Update Georgian translation
>   - !309 Update Slovenian (sl) translation
>   - !311 build: Use system libcdb library if available
>   - !312 malcontent-webd-update/tests: Only install webd template if tests
> are
>     installed
>   - !314 nss/tests/nss-objdump: Also allow linker library
>   - !315 Update Swedish translation
>   - !316 build/ci: Minor cleanups related to docs
>   - !317 Update Kazakh translation
>
> * Translation updates:
>   - Chinese (China) (lumingzh)
>   - Czech (AsciiWolf)
>   - Georgian (NorwayFun)
>   - Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
>   - Russian (Ser82-png)
>   - Slovenian (filmsi)
>   - Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
>
> Overview of changes in malcontent 0.14.alpha
> ============================================
>
> * This is an unstable development release previewing some new features; a
> lot of
>   things have changed around, so it’s expected that there may be some
> packaging
>   issues; please file an issue on
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent/-/issues if so
>
> * Add developer API documentation
>
> * Refresh UI
>
> * Add support for screen time limits
>
> * Add backend for web filtering
>
> * Bugs fixed:
>   - #2 Build developer documentation (Philip Withnall)
>   - #73 Updated sl.po translationn
>   - #74 Add family API (Philip Withnall)
>   - #75 Ensure MctSessionLimits can do daily time limit and bedtime
> schedule
>     (Philip Withnall)
>   - #76 Add org.freedesktop.MalcontentTimer1.Parent API for querying child
>     computer usage (Philip Withnall)
>   - #80 Refresh UI for unlock page
>   - #81 Rework user selector
>   - #83 Add screen time subpage with basic screen limits options
>   - #84 Add screen time chart
>   - #88 Implement NSS web filtering module and filter list daemon (Philip
>     Withnall)
>   - #91 Port documentation comments to gi-docgen format
>   - #95 Build sysext image in CI for integration testing with gnome-shell
>     (Philip Withnall)
>   - #96 Selecting username from commandline fails (Ignacy Kuchciński)
>   - #97 Add org.freedesktop.MalcontentTimer1.Child API for extending a
> child’s
>     session time (Philip Withnall)
>   - #98 After adding screen time subpage, the previous value of
> bedtime/screen
>     limit are not preserved (Philip Withnall)
>   - #100 Bump the app copyright date (Philip Withnall)
>   - #102 Add tests for filter list parsing code in malcontent-webd (Philip
>     Withnall)
>   - #107 Follow-up from "Add screen time chart"
>   - #109 Set a default daily screen time limit value
>   - #110 Show logged-in child accounts in the parental controls application
>   - #111 Screen time summary level bar overflows
>   - #112 Fix assertion when closing the application (Philip Withnall)
>   - #113 Investigate gtklevelbar breaking
>   - #115 Improve documentation of the malcontent-client record-usage
> command
>     (Philip Withnall)
>   - #117 Emit EstimatedTimesChanged signal from malcontent-timerd if
> session
>     limits settings change (Philip Withnall)
>   - #118 Malcontent-timerd daemon error on GNOME OS child account login
> (Philip
>     Withnall)
>   - #119 Fix duration picker breaking in 12-hour clock mode
>   - #120 Update Turkish translation
>   - !189 build: Post-release version bump
>   - !190 Bulgarian translation by kraftwerk
>   - !191 malcontent-control: Port about dialog to AdwAboutDialog
>   - !192 ci: Add various linting tests for shell and Python
>   - !193 malcontent-client: Add support for setting a session limit policy
>   - !194 Improve REUSE license/copyright tagging somewhat
>   - !195 Update Georgian translation
>   - !196 malcontent-timerd: Add initial implementation of timer daemon
>   - !197 po: Add new malcontent-timerd files to POTFILES.in
>   - !198 updated ru.po
>   - !200 ui: Fix wrong a11y role in button
>   - !202 nss: Add a new libnss_malcontent.so.2 NSS module for web filtering
>   - !204 libmalcontent: Add web filtering settings storage and API
>   - !205 malcontent-client: Add {get,set}-web-filter commands
>   - !210 Add icons to libmalcontent-ui gresources
>   - !211 docs: Add Code of Conduct
>   - !213 Add missing mct_session_limits_equal() and mct_web_filter_equal()
>     functions
>   - !214 manager: Rework change notification from AccountsService and
> support
>     notification for session limits and web filters
>   - !215 Various minor type and terminology fixes
>   - !216 user-selector: Factor out getuid() calls into a :current-user
> property
>   - !217 Fix icons in dark theme
>   - !218 tools: Add a sysext build tool
>   - !219 malcontent-control: Add D-Bus service file
>   - !220 malcontent-control: Change component type to "desktop-application"
>   - !221 accounts-service: Make extension symlinks relative
>   - !222 Handle external changes to users and settings
>   - !224 Fix waiting asynchronously for user manager
>   - !225 malcontent-webd: Add initial implementation of web filtering
> daemon
>   - !226 Adjust malcontent-timer for shell integration
>   - !227 po: Add missing files to POTFILES.in
>   - !228 Replace sl.po; this is the updated translation (100%).
>   - !229 nss: Add unit tests for NSS module
>   - !230 Update of sl.po
>   - !231 malcontent-timer: Remove an invalid attribute from a D-Bus XML
> file
>   - !232 tests: Add test for the sandboxing of malcontent-webd.service and
>     malcontent-timerd.service
>   - !233 Update Czech translation
>   - !235 Malcontent client improvements
>   - !236 Update Polish translation 250828
>   - #83 Add screen time subpage with basic screen limits options
>   - #84 Add screen time chart
>   - #88 Implement NSS web filtering module and filter list daemon (Philip
>     Withnall)
>   - #91 Port documentation comments to gi-docgen format
>   - #95 Build sysext image in CI for integration testing with gnome-shell
>     (Philip Withnall)
>   - #96 Selecting username from commandline fails (Ignacy Kuchciński)
>   - #97 Add org.freedesktop.MalcontentTimer1.Child API for extending a
> child’s
>     session time (Philip Withnall)
>   - #98 After adding screen time subpage, the previous value of
> bedtime/screen
>     limit are not preserved (Philip Withnall)
>   - #100 Bump the app copyright date (Philip Withnall)
>   - #102 Add tests for filter list parsing code in malcontent-webd (Philip
>     Withnall)
>   - #107 Follow-up from "Add screen time chart"
>   - #109 Set a default daily screen time limit value
>   - #110 Show logged-in child accounts in the parental controls application
>   - #111 Screen time summary level bar overflows
>   - #112 Fix assertion when closing the application (Philip Withnall)
>   - #113 Investigate gtklevelbar breaking
>   - #115 Improve documentation of the malcontent-client record-usage
> command
>     (Philip Withnall)
>   - #117 Emit EstimatedTimesChanged signal from malcontent-timerd if
> session
>     limits settings change (Philip Withnall)
>   - #118 Malcontent-timerd daemon error on GNOME OS child account login
> (Philip
>     Withnall)
>   - #119 Fix duration picker breaking in 12-hour clock mode
>   - #120 Update Turkish translation
>   - !189 build: Post-release version bump
>   - !190 Bulgarian translation by kraftwerk
>   - !191 malcontent-control: Port about dialog to AdwAboutDialog
>   - !192 ci: Add various linting tests for shell and Python
>   - !193 malcontent-client: Add support for setting a session limit policy
>   - !194 Improve REUSE license/copyright tagging somewhat
>   - !195 Update Georgian translation
>   - !196 malcontent-timerd: Add initial implementation of timer daemon
>   - !197 po: Add new malcontent-timerd files to POTFILES.in
>   - !198 updated ru.po
>   - !200 ui: Fix wrong a11y role in button
>   - !202 nss: Add a new libnss_malcontent.so.2 NSS module for web filtering
>   - !204 libmalcontent: Add web filtering settings storage and API
>   - !205 malcontent-client: Add {get,set}-web-filter commands
>   - !210 Add icons to libmalcontent-ui gresources
>   - !211 docs: Add Code of Conduct
>   - !213 Add missing mct_session_limits_equal() and mct_web_filter_equal()
>     functions
>   - !214 manager: Rework change notification from AccountsService and
> support
>     notification for session limits and web filters
>   - !215 Various minor type and terminology fixes
>   - !216 user-selector: Factor out getuid() calls into a :current-user
> property
>   - !217 Fix icons in dark theme
>   - !218 tools: Add a sysext build tool
>   - !219 malcontent-control: Add D-Bus service file
>   - !220 malcontent-control: Change component type to "desktop-application"
>   - !221 accounts-service: Make extension symlinks relative
>   - !222 Handle external changes to users and settings
>   - !224 Fix waiting asynchronously for user manager
>   - !225 malcontent-webd: Add initial implementation of web filtering
> daemon
>   - !226 Adjust malcontent-timer for shell integration
>   - !227 po: Add missing files to POTFILES.in
>   - !228 Replace sl.po; this is the updated translation (100%).
>   - !229 nss: Add unit tests for NSS module
>   - !230 Update of sl.po
>   - !231 malcontent-timer: Remove an invalid attribute from a D-Bus XML
> file
>   - !232 tests: Add test for the sandboxing of malcontent-webd.service and
>     malcontent-timerd.service
>   - !233 Update Czech translation
>   - !235 Malcontent client improvements
>   - !236 Update Polish translation 250828
>   - !237 docs: Add web filtering design document
>   - !238 docs: Add a document about system integration (packaging)
>   - !240 Update Czech translation
>   - !241 malcontent-client: Fix --help output for set-web-filter subcommand
>   - !242 Calculate next session times in malcontent-timer
>   - !243 Update Czech translation
>   - !245 po: Add false positves to POTFILES.skip
>   - !246 Update Polish translation 250907
>   - !247 manager: Handle UnknownInterface error from AccountsService
>   - !249 Minor malcontent-webd fixes
>   - !251 docs: Mention the update-error file in malcontent-webd.8
>   - !252 libmalcontent-ui: Update documentation to use gi-docgen
>   - !254 docs: Add some reference links to screen time design document
>   - !255 Update Chinese translation
>   - !256 Update Slovenian translation
>   - !257 libmalcontent-timer: Retry queries if the timer store is busy
>   - !258 time-page: Prevent calling unref on a NULL pointer
>   - !259 malcontent-webd-update: Disable timeout when updating filters
>   - !260 malcontent-webd: Relax UMask in service file
>   - !261 Update Czech translation
>   - !262 po: Add missing file to POTFILES.in
>   - !263 Update Chinese translation
>   - !264 build: Use exposed interfaces directory
>   - !265 libmalcontent-ui: Add missing gir include path
>   - !266 Minor fixes for malcontent-control
>   - !268 Replace sl.po with translation update.
>   - !269 Russian translation updated
>   - !270 Update Czech translation
>   - !271 Update Chinese translation
>   - !272 Updated RU against most recent pot
>   - !273 Statically link libgsystemservice
>   - !274 Various minor fixes and build system tests
>   - !277 l10n: Replace sl.po (Slovenian)
>   - !279 Update Swedish translation
>   - !282 tests: Add unit tests for `MctExtensionAgentObject`
>   - !286 libmalcontent: Port remaining doc comments to gi-docgen format
>   - !289 malcontent-control: Fix a crash when quitting just after making
> changes
>   - !291 po: Update Bulgarian translation
>
> * Translation updates:
>   - Bulgarian (twlvnn, twlvnn kraftwerk)
>   - Chinese (China) (lumingzh)
>   - Czech (AsciiWolf)
>   - Georgian (NorwayFun)
>   - Polish (Piotr Drąg)
>   - Russian (Julia Dronova, Ser82-png)
>   - Slovenian (filmsi, Martin Srebotnjak)
>   - Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
>   - Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Volk <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .../recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent-ui.bb |  4 ++--
>  .../recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.bb    | 16 +++++++-------
>  .../recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.inc   | 21 ++++++++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent-ui.bb
> b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent-ui.bb
> index 8630822939..d0a975a457 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent-ui.bb
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent-ui.bb
> @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
>  SUMMARY = "User-Interface for malcontent."
>  HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent"
> -LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
>
>  require malcontent.inc
>
> @@ -20,6 +18,8 @@ DEPENDS += " \
>         flatpak \
>         libadwaita \
>         gtk4 \
> +       gi-docgen-native \
> +       gnome-desktop \
>  "
>
>  GIR_MESON_OPTION = ""
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.bb
> b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.bb
> index 9da95329a8..579b0f6ffe 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.bb
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.bb
> @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
>  SUMMARY = "malcontent implements support for restricting the type of
> content."
>  HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent"
> -LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
> -LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
>
>  require malcontent.inc
>
> @@ -13,6 +11,8 @@ DEPENDS = " \
>         itstool-native \
>         libpam \
>         polkit \
> +       gi-docgen-native \
>

why not inherit gi-docgen class here.


> +       libsoup \
>  "
>
>  GIR_MESON_OPTION = ""
> @@ -27,9 +27,11 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[ui] = ",,,malcontent-ui"
>  EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dui=disabled -Dpamlibdir=${base_libdir}/security"
>
>  FILES:${PN} += " \
> -       ${base_libdir}/security/pam_malcontent.so \
> -       ${datadir}/accountsservice \
> -       ${datadir}/help \
> -       ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
> -       ${datadir}/polkit-1 \
> +    ${nonarch_libdir}/sysusers.d \
> +    ${systemd_system_unitdir} \
> +    ${base_libdir}/security/pam_malcontent.so \
> +    ${datadir}/accountsservice \
> +    ${datadir}/help \
> +    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
> +    ${datadir}/polkit-1 \
>  "
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.inc
> b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.inc
> index 7cb052d69c..de5da10193 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.inc
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/malcontent/malcontent.inc
> @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
> -SRC_URI = "git://
> gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent.git;protocol=https;branch=malcontent-0.13
> "
> -SRCREV = "090042fec5181621e2fd8cfef9fc446ed86db98b"
> -PV = "0.13.1"
> +LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=310c7c93cf5181c6b0cc8229a1f3c6f6"
> +
> +SRC_URI = "git://
> gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent.git;protocol=https;nobranch=1;tag=${PV};name=malcontent
> <http://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent.git;protocol=https;nobranch=1;tag=$%7BPV%7D;name=malcontent>
> "
> +SRC_URI += "git://
> gitlab.gnome.org/pwithnall/libgsystemservice.git;name=libgsystemservice;subdir=${S}/subprojects/libgsystemservice;protocol=https;nobranch=1
> <http://gitlab.gnome.org/pwithnall/libgsystemservice.git;name=libgsystemservice;subdir=$%7BS%7D/subprojects/libgsystemservice;protocol=https;nobranch=1>
> "
> +SRC_URI += "git://
> gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvdb.git;protocol=https;subdir=${S}/subprojects/gvdb;name=gvdb;nobranch=1
> <http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvdb.git;protocol=https;subdir=$%7BS%7D/subprojects/gvdb;name=gvdb;nobranch=1>
> "
> +SRC_URI += "
> https://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb/tinycdb-0.81.tar.gz;subdir=${S}/subprojects;name=tinycdb
> "
> +SRCREV_malcontent = "d28f6635359d02d1068d8b21fb5810e5074b7903"
> +SRCREV_libgsystemservice = "f4c5764652b5f347347b459ee011e4f02b29c3a0"
> +SRCREV_gvdb = "466fc22016cf0981424e7121557611942191992f"
> +SRC_URI[tinycdb.sha256sum] =
> "469de2d445bf54880f652f4b6dc95c7cdf6f5502c35524a45b2122d70d47ebc2"
> +SRCREV_FORMAT = "malcontent"
> +
> +PV = "0.14.0"
>

I think this should be reflected in the name of recipe itself.


> +
> +do_configure:prepend() {
> +    cp ${S}/subprojects/packagefiles/tinycdb/meson.build
> ${S}/subprojects/tinycdb-0.81
> +}
> --
> 2.55.0
>
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