gnome-software: update 49.2 -> 50.0

Version 50.0
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2026-03-13
This is a stable release with updated translations:
 * Danish (Alan Mortensen)
 * English (United Kingdom) (Bruce Cowan)
 * Japanese (小山田 純 - Oyamada Jun)
 * Occitan (post 1500) (Quentin PAGÈS)
 * Polish (Victoria)
 * Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
Version 50~rc
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2026-02-27
This is an unstable release with the following changes:
 * Remember window size between app restarts
 * Updates page could be sometimes hidden after resume from suspend
 * Allow remove also Flatpak remotes from system installation
 * Correct check for add-ons when app's ID changed
 * Improve socket permissions checks for Flatpak apps
This release also updates translations:
 * Basque (Asier Saratsua Garmendia)
 * Catalan (Jordi Mas, Victor Dargallo)
 * Chinese (China) (luming zh)
 * Czech (Daniel Rusek)
 * Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
 * French (Lucien Ouoba, Guillaume Bernard)
 * Galician (Fran Diéguez)
 * German (Christian Kirbach)
 * Greek, Modern (1453-) (Efstathios Iosifidis)
 * Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
 * Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) (Emilio Sepúlveda)
 * Italian (Davide Ferracin)
 * Japanese (Makoto Sakaguchi)
 * Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
 * Korean (Seong-ho Cho)
 * Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
 * Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
 * Turkish (Sabri Ünal)
Version 50~beta
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2026-01-30
This is an unstable release with the following changes:
 * Show install and uninstall progress of an add-on
 * Use lower thread priority when running in background
 * Fix possible crash on session permission change
 * Fix possible crash after XbSilo rebuild
This release also updates translations:
 * Bulgarian (twlvnn kraftwerk)
 * Georgian (Ekaterine Papava)
 * Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
 * Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
 * Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
 * Lithuanian (Aurimas Aurimas Černius)
 * Portuguese (Brazil) (Juliano de Souza Camargo)
 * Romanian (Antonio Marin)
 * Russian (Artur S0)
 * Slovenian (Martin)
 * Uighur (Abduqadir Abliz)
 * Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)
Version 50~alpha
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2026-01-15

This is an unstable release with the following changes:
 * Improve display of long repository names
 * Clarify warning about removing data when uninstalling an app
 * Fix minor UI issues when scrolling using gestures on a touchpad
 * Don’t show firmware warning on Installed Updates page
 * Several fixes to update history on rpm-ostree systems
 * Improve notifying the user about newly installed trivial flatpak app updates
 * Improve display of keyboard shortcuts
 * Split rpm-ostree changelogs by app
 * Display error toasts in the repositories dialog when something goes wrong
This release also updates translations:
 * Catalan (Victor Dargallo)
 * Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
 * Japanese (Makoto Sakaguchi)
 * Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
 * Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
 * Portuguese (Brazil) (Juliano de Souza Camargo)
 * Russian (Artur S0)
 * Slovenian (Martin)

Signed-off-by: Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <khem.raj@oss.qualcomm.com>

meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-software/gnome-software/0001-meson.build-dont-look-for-flatpak-http_backend-varia.patch

@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-From 4588a3d34f574619c6f3a4290d53e2ac063ab56a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>
-Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:04:49 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] meson.build: dont look for flatpak http_backend variable
-
-flatpak 1.17.1 release dropped libsoup2 support:
-[https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/c324778b0720cb2d01c217fdc70358e232c38b4d/NEWS#L20]
-
-* Drop libsoup2 support in favor of libcurl. The `http_backend` build option has
-  been dropped as well. (#6395)
-
-gnome-software still searches for the http_backend variable and fails:
- ../sources/gnome-software-49.1/meson.build:218:32: ERROR: Could not get pkg-config variable and no default provided for <PkgConfigDependency flatpak: True ['>= 1.14.1']>
-
-Signed-off-by: Markus Volk <f_l_k@t-online.de>
-
-Upstream-Status: Inappropriate
----
- meson.build | 20 +-------------------
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
-index 3704e2abc..7e0496a22 100644
---- a/meson.build
-+++ b/meson.build
-@@ -212,26 +212,8 @@ if get_option('fwupd')
- endif
- 
- if get_option('flatpak')
--  flatpak = dependency('flatpak', version : '>= 1.14.1')
-+  flatpak = dependency('flatpak', version : '>= 1.17.1')
-   ostree = dependency('ostree-1')
--
--  flatpak_httpbackend = flatpak.get_variable('httpbackend')
--  if flatpak_httpbackend == 'soup'
--    flatpak_soupapiversion = flatpak.get_variable('soupapiversion', default_value: '2')
--    if flatpak_soupapiversion.version_compare('< 3')
--      error('''Flatpak library has been built with 'libsoup2' http backend, which conflicts with 'libsoup3' used by gnome-software.
--
--You can either:
--
--1. Build gnome-software without flatpak support (with -Dflatpak=false) or
--2. Rebuild flatpak library with http backend other than 'libsoup2'.''')
--    else
--      flatpak_summary = '@0@ (@1@)'.format(flatpak_httpbackend, flatpak_soupapiversion)
--    endif
--  else
--    flatpak_summary = flatpak_httpbackend
--  endif
--  summary('Flatpak http backend', '@0@'.format(flatpak_summary), section : 'Misc')
- endif
- 
- if get_option('malcontent')
--- 
-2.52.0
-

meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gnome-software/gnome-software_50.0.bb

@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} = "iso-codes"
 
 EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dtests=false"
 
-SRC_URI += "file://0001-meson.build-dont-look-for-flatpak-http_backend-varia.patch"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "3515e2015f235b6abb7a342806008acb1f184c29d9c4ced3581f8ed4c1f1c241"
-SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "b610b6932a8d666432bc58d6c78c4568cd63d442ae736db8be2c4ca01bbc946c"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ?= "flatpak"
 PACKAGECONFIG[flatpak] = "-Dflatpak=true,-Dflatpak=false,flatpak ostree"