Ubuntu Server development summary – 13 February 2018
David Britton
on 13 February 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
This article is more than 7 years old.
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.smithcloud-init, artful, 17.2-30-gf7deaf15-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, chad.smithiscsitarget, xenial, 1.4.20.3+svn502-2ubuntu4.5, smbjuju-core, xenial, 2.3.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, cyphermoxlibvirt, xenial, 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.18, xtrusiaqemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.21, paelzerwalinuxagent, trusty, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~14.04.1, sil2100walinuxagent, xenial, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, sil2100walinuxagent, artful, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, sil2100
Uploads released to the Supported Releases
Total: 20
cloud-utils, xenial, 0.27-0ubuntu25, smoserexim4, xenial, 4.86.2-2ubuntu2.3, mdeslaurexim4, artful, 4.89-5ubuntu1.3, mdeslaurexim4, trusty, 4.82-3ubuntu2.4, mdeslaurlibvirt, artful, 3.6.0-1ubuntu6.2, mdeslaurlibvirt, xenial, 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.17, mdeslaurlibvirt, trusty, 1.2.2-0ubuntu13.1.25, mdeslaurmailman, artful, 1:2.1.23-1ubuntu0.2, leosilvabmailman, xenial, 1:2.1.20-1ubuntu0.3, leosilvabmailman, trusty, 1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.5, leosilvabphp5, trusty, 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.23, mdeslaurphp7.0, xenial, 7.0.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, naccpuppet, trusty, 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.3, mdeslaurpython-django, artful, 1:1.11.4-1ubuntu1.1, leosilvabqemu, artful, 1:2.10+dfsg-0ubuntu3.4, mdeslaurqemu, xenial, 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20, mdeslaurqemu, trusty, 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.38, mdeslaursosreport, trusty, 3.5-1~ubuntu14.04.2, slashdsosreport, xenial, 3.5-1~ubuntu16.04.2, slashdsosreport, artful, 3.5-1~ubuntu17.10.2, slashd
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 39
apache2, 2.4.29-1ubuntu3, xnoxasterisk, 1:13.18.3~dfsg-1ubuntu3, xnoxbacula, 9.0.6-1build1, xnoxbind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu3, xnoxclamav, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu1, mdeslaurclamav, 0.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu2, xnoxcloud-init, 17.2-34-g644048e3-0ubuntu1, smosercorosync, 2.4.2-3ubuntu1, nacccrmsh, 3.0.1-3ubuntu1, xnoxdovecot, 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu2, xnoxfence-agents, 4.0.25-2ubuntu1, vorlonfreeradius, 3.0.16+dfsg-1ubuntu2, xnoxldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu4, xnoxlibp11, 0.4.7-3, pkg-opensc-maintlibvirt, 4.0.0-1ubuntu2, paelzerm2crypto, 0.27.0-4build1, xnoxmaas, 2.4.0~alpha1-6573-g12ee2331b-0ubuntu1, andreserlmonitoring-plugins, 2.2-3ubuntu2, xnoxnagios-nrpe, 3.2.1-1ubuntu1, xnoxnet-snmp, 5.7.3+dfsg-1.8ubuntu2, xnoxnghttp2, 1.29.0-1build1, xnoxopen-vm-tools, 2:10.2.0-2build1, xnoxopenhpi, 3.6.1-3.1build1, xnoxopenipmi, 2.0.22-1.1ubuntu2, xnoxopenvpn, 2.4.4-2ubuntu1, xnoxpacemaker, 1.1.18~rc4-1ubuntu1, naccpep8, 1.7.1-1ubuntu1, dokophp7.2, 7.2.2-1ubuntu1, xnoxpkg-php-tools, 1.35ubuntu1, naccpostfix, 3.2.5-1build1, xnoxrrdtool, 1.7.0-1, pkg-rrdtool-maintruby-json, 2.1.0+dfsg-1ubuntu2, dokoruby2.3, 2.3.6-2ubuntu1, dokospice, 0.14.0-1ubuntu2, xnoxsqlparse, 0.2.4-0.1, dokosqlparse, 0.2.2-1ubuntu1, vorlonstrongswan, 5.6.1-2ubuntu2, xnoxunbound, 1.6.7-1build1, xnoxuvtool, 0~git140-0ubuntu1, racb
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