Ubuntu Server development summary – 24 July 2018
Joshua Powers
on 24 July 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
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The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.
cloud-init
- Upload new release to Ubuntu Cosmic. Contains:
- docs: note in rtd about avoiding /tmp when writing files
- ubuntu,centos,debian: get_linux_distro to align with platform.dist
- Fix boothook docs on environment variable name (INSTANCE_I -> INSTANCE_ID) (Marc Tamsky)
- update_metadata: a datasource can support network re-config every boot
- tests: drop salt-minion integration test
- Retry on failed import of gpg receive keys.
- tools: Fix run-container when neither source or binary package requested.
- docs: Fix a small spelling error (Oz N Tiram)
- tox: use simplestreams from git repository rather than bzr.
- Begin SRU to other supported Ubuntu releases
- Docs: add notes about not writting to /tmp due to systemd races
- Fix get_linux_distro on debian, ubuntu and centos to mimic platform.dist
- Disabled Artful testing
curtin
- SRU run of vmtests with version in proposed
- tests: skip by date decorator to run skipped tests, but ignore result
- tests: disabled Artful testing
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
- Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
- Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
Bug Work and Triage
- 289 in the backlog
- 249 bugs reviewed since the last report
- Notes on daily bug triage
Ubuntu Server Packages
Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases. Current status of the Debian to Ubuntu merges is tracked on the Merge-o-Matic page. For a full list of recent merges with change logs please see the Ubuntu Server report.
Proposed Uploads to the Supported Releases
Please consider testing the following by enabling proposed, checking packages for update regressions, and making sure to mark affected bugs verified as fixed.
Total: 9
cloud-init, xenial, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, chad.smithcloud-init, artful, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smithcloud-init, bionic, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, chad.smithdovecot, xenial, 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.8, cyphermoxkeepalived, bionic, 1:1.3.9-1ubuntu0.18.04.1, corey.bryantlibapache2-mod-perl2, xenial, 2.0.9-4ubuntu1.1, ahasenackpostgresql-common, xenial, 173ubuntu0.2, juliankqemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.31, paelzersmartmontools, trusty, 6.2+svn3841-1.2ubuntu0.1, ahasenack
Uploads Released to the Supported Releases
Total: 15
apache2, artful, 2.4.27-2ubuntu4.2, ahasenackapache2, xenial, 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.9, ahasenackdns-root-data, artful, 2018013001~17.10.1, mdeslaurdns-root-data, xenial, 2018013001~16.04.1, mdeslaurdnsmasq, xenial, 2.75-1ubuntu0.16.04.5, mdeslaurdocker.io, xenial, 17.03.2-0ubuntu2~16.04.1, mwhudsonebtables, xenial, 2.0.10.4-3.4ubuntu2.16.04.2, rbalintebtables, artful, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.17.10.3, rbalintebtables, bionic, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu2.18.04.3, rbalintipmitool, bionic, 1.8.18-5ubuntu0.1, dannfnbd, bionic, 1:3.16.2-1ubuntu0.1, cascardophp7.2, bionic, 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, mdeslaurphp7.2, bionic, 7.2.7-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, mdeslaurpython-cryptography, bionic, 2.1.4-1ubuntu1.2, leosilvabscreen, bionic, 4.6.2-1ubuntu1, brian-murray
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 26
autofs, 5.1.2-4ubuntu1, ahasenackclamav, 0.100.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1, mdeslaurclamav, 0.99.4+addedllvm-0ubuntu3, ahasenackcloud-init, 18.3-9-g2e62cb8a-0ubuntu1, chad.smithcloud-initramfs-tools, 0.42ubuntu1, smosercloud-initramfs-tools, 0.41ubuntu1, smoserexim4, 4.91-5ubuntu1, ahasenackfacter, 3.11.0-1build1, dokoipmitool, 1.8.18-5ubuntu1, dannfkeepalived, 1:1.3.9-1ubuntu1, corey.bryantldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu6, vorlonlibseccomp, 2.3.3-3ubuntu1, tyhicksphp7.2, 7.2.7-0ubuntu2, mdeslaurphp7.2, 7.2.7-0ubuntu1, mdeslaurpkg-php-tools, 1.36, pkg-php-pearpuppet, 5.5.2-2, pkg-puppet-develpython-cryptography, 2.2.2-1ubuntu1, leosilvabpython-django, 1:1.11.14-1ubuntu2, costamagnagianfrancopython-django, 1:1.11.14-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfrancoqemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu3, paelzerqemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu2, paelzerqemu, 1:2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu1, paelzersamba, 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu3, ahasenacksssd, 1.16.1-1ubuntu4, ahasenacktomcat8, 8.5.32-1ubuntu2, stefanortomcat8, 8.5.32-1ubuntu1, stefanor
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