Bug 33104

Summary:	New version of solaar released in February
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Thomas Andrews <andrewsfarm>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	QA Team <qa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, geiger.david68210, sysadmin-bugs
Version:	9	Keywords:	advisory, validated_update
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA9-64-OK
Source RPM:	solaar-1.1.9-2.mga9.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Thomas Andrews 2024-04-16 13:51:23 CEST

Description of problem: 

Our version of solaar, 1.1.9 is about a year old. There have been two releases since then, the latest in February. The changelog indicates some bugfixes and adds support for new devices:

https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

On a personal note, one of the changes indicated is "Remove incorrect feature for M325 mice." I have not run into whatever that incorrect feature is, at least not that I remember, but I own several of those mice and use them daily.

Filed against Cauldron because I don't know what version is there at the moment. If Cauldron has already been updated, the same should be done for Mageia 9.

Thomas Andrews 2024-04-16 13:52:34 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9TOO

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2024-04-16 17:30:29 CEST

https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar/blob/master/Release_Notes.md
The release notes indicate the hid-parser should be added too.

The hid-parser is released under the mit license.
https://github.com/usb-tools/python-hid-parser

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 David GEIGER 2024-04-16 18:07:24 CEST

Cauldron has the latest 1.1.11 release!

Whiteboard: MGA9TOO => (none)
Source RPM: (none) => solaar-1.1.9-2.mga9.src.rpm
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Version: Cauldron => 9
Assignee: bugsquad => geiger.david68210

Comment 3 David GEIGER 2024-04-16 19:28:23 CEST

Assigning to QA,

Packages in 9/Core/Updates_testing:
======================
solaar-1.1.11-1.mga9.noarch.rpm
python3-hid-parser-0.0.3-0.git20211206.1.mga9.noarch.rpm

From SRPMS:
solaar-1.1.11-1.mga9.src.rpm
python-hid-parser-0.0.3-0.git20211206.1.mga9.src.rpm

Assignee: geiger.david68210 => qa-bugs

Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2024-04-16 20:57:05 CEST

Restarted x11 after installing the update. Checked the various functions in
the systray applet. All working as expected.

Validating the update.

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA9-64-OK

Comment 5 Thomas Andrews 2024-04-16 22:00:30 CEST

No installation issues, and no issues with regard to operation.

I did find the reference for the M325 mouse issue:
https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar/issues/2201

My install does show the M325 mouse with a "high resolution scroll wheel" toggle, both before and after the update. Unlike the Github reporter, I m able to toggle this non-existent "feature" on and off at will, generating no errors that I can see. As you might expected with a non-existent feature, toggling it makes no difference in scroll wheel operation. 

I tried removing solaar and my user's config folder, then re-installing, and the option was still there, so I'm not sure it's as "fixed" as the solaar developer believes it to be. However, since it's not a new regression, and doesn't seem to do any harm, I see no reason to hold the update back.

katnatek 2024-04-17 03:23:20 CEST

Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 6 Mageia Robot 2024-04-17 04:14:35 CEST

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2024-0129.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED