Ubuntu Server development summary – 13 February 2018
David Britton
on 13 February 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
Hello Ubuntu Server!
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
- cloud-init status –wait blocks until all stages complete (LP: #1747965)
- SRU EC2 upgrade path fix for ‘systemctl restart cloud-init.service’ (LP:1748354)
- Fix ds-identify nocloud detection with bind mounted writable/system-data directory (LP: #1747070)
- Tests: include missing unitests in python2.6 environments. Fix py2.6 incompatilibilies
curtin
- Fix image url download for python2.7. Fix CI to avoid image downloads when source version is unspecified.
- Curtin zfsroot as fstype for MAAS (Experimental)
- LiveCD undesired swap behavior. Curtin needs to unmount auto-mounted swaps
Bug Work and Triage
- 280 in the backlog, 164 bugs reviewed
- Notes on daily bug triage
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
- Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
- Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
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, 17.2-30-gf7deaf15-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, chad.smith
cloud-init, artful, 17.2-30-gf7deaf15-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smith
iscsitarget, xenial, 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4.5, smb
juju-core, xenial, 2.3.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, cyphermox
libvirt, xenial, 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.18, xtrusia
qemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.21, paelzer
walinuxagent, trusty, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~14.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, xenial, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, sil2100
walinuxagent, artful, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, sil2100
Uploads released to the Supported Releases
Total: 20
cloud-utils, xenial, 0.27-0ubuntu25, smoser
exim4, xenial, 4.86.2-2ubuntu2.3, mdeslaur
exim4, artful, 4.89-5ubuntu1.3, mdeslaur
exim4, trusty, 4.82-3ubuntu2.4, mdeslaur
libvirt, artful, 3.6.0-1ubuntu6.2, mdeslaur
libvirt, xenial, 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.17, mdeslaur
libvirt, trusty, 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.25, mdeslaur
mailman, artful, 1:2.1.23-1ubuntu0.2, leosilvab
mailman, xenial, 1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.3, leosilvab
mailman, trusty, 1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.5, leosilvab
php5, trusty, 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.23, mdeslaur
php7.0, xenial, 7.0.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, nacc
puppet, trusty, 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3, mdeslaur
python-django, artful, 1:1.11.4-1ubuntu1.1, leosilvab
qemu, artful, 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.4, mdeslaur
qemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20, mdeslaur
qemu, trusty, 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.38, mdeslaur
sosreport, trusty, 3.5-1~ubuntu14.04.2, slashd
sosreport, xenial, 3.5-1~ubuntu16.04.2, slashd
sosreport, artful, 3.5-1~ubuntu17.10.2, slashd
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 39
apache2, 2.4.29-1ubuntu3, xnox
asterisk, 1:13.18.3~dfsg-1ubuntu3, xnox
bacula, 9.0.6-1build1, xnox
bind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu3, xnox
clamav, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu1, mdeslaur
clamav, 0.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu2, xnox
cloud-init, 17.2-34-g644048e3-0ubuntu1, smoser
corosync, 2.4.2-3ubuntu1, nacc
crmsh, 3.0.1-3ubuntu1, xnox
dovecot, 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu2, xnox
fence-agents, 4.0.25-2ubuntu1, vorlon
freeradius, 3.0.16+dfsg-1ubuntu2, xnox
ldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu4, xnox
libp11, 0.4.7-3, pkg-opensc-maint
libvirt, 4.0.0-1ubuntu2, paelzer
m2crypto, 0.27.0-4build1, xnox
maas, 2.4.0~alpha1-6573-g12ee2331b-0ubuntu1, andreserl
monitoring-plugins, 2.2-3ubuntu2, xnox
nagios-nrpe, 3.2.1-1ubuntu1, xnox
net-snmp, 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu2, xnox
nghttp2, 1.29.0-1build1, xnox
open-vm-tools, 2:10.2.0-2build1, xnox
openhpi, 3.6.1-3.1build1, xnox
openipmi, 2.0.22-1.1ubuntu2, xnox
openvpn, 2.4.4-2ubuntu1, xnox
pacemaker, 1.1.18~rc4-1ubuntu1, nacc
pep8, 1.7.1-1ubuntu1, doko
php7.2, 7.2.2-1ubuntu1, xnox
pkg-php-tools, 1.35ubuntu1, nacc
postfix, 3.2.5-1build1, xnox
rrdtool, 1.7.0-1, pkg-rrdtool-maint
ruby-json, 2.1.0+dfsg-1ubuntu2, doko
ruby2.3, 2.3.6-2ubuntu1, doko
spice, 0.14.0-1ubuntu2, xnox
sqlparse, 0.2.4-0.1, doko
sqlparse, 0.2.2-1ubuntu1, vorlon
strongswan, 5.6.1-2ubuntu2, xnox
unbound, 1.6.7-1build1, xnox
uvtool, 0~git140-0ubuntu1, racb
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