Ubuntu Server development summary – 06 February 2018
David Britton
on 6 February 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
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cloud-init
- Fix SSH key validation in ssh_util (Tatiana Kholkina)
- Queued SRU for Ubuntu Xenial and Artful
curtin
- SRU to Ubuntu Xenial and Artful
- Enable reading zfsroot filesystem type in curtin
- Restrict modprobe of zfs modules to Xenial and later series
- Avoid tracebacks by creating configured error_tarfile directory path if it doesn’t already exist LP: #336876
- Improve review-mps tooling to support reviewing and landing branches from both curtin and cloud-init
- Fix vmtest when invalid source version used
Bug Work and Triage
- 283 in the backlog, 96 bugs reviewed
- Notes on daily bug triage
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
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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: 7
cloud-utils, xenial, 0.27-0ubuntu25, smosersosreport, trusty, 3.5-1~ubuntu14.04.2, slashdsosreport, xenial, 3.5-1~ubuntu16.04.2, slashdsosreport, artful, 3.5-1~ubuntu17.10.2, slashdwalinuxagent, 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: 17
clamav, artful, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.17.10.1, mdeslaurclamav, xenial, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, mdeslaurclamav, trusty, 0.99.3+addedllvm-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, mdeslaurcurtin, xenial, 17.1-11-ga4c9636b-0ubuntu1~16.04.1, raharpercurtin, artful, 17.1-11-ga4c9636b-0ubuntu1~17.10.1, raharperdovecot, artful, 1:2.2.27-3ubuntu1.2, leosilvabdovecot, xenial, 1:2.2.22-1ubuntu2.6, leosilvabdovecot, trusty, 1:2.2.9-1ubuntu2.3, leosilvabruby2.3, artful, 2.3.3-1ubuntu1.3, leosilvabruby2.3, xenial, 2.3.1-2~16.04.6, leosilvabspamassassin, artful, 3.4.1-7ubuntu1, paelzersquid3, artful, 3.5.23-5ubuntu1.1, mdeslaursquid3, xenial, 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.5, mdeslaursquid3, trusty, 3.3.8-1ubuntu6.11, mdeslaurw3m, artful, 0.5.3-34ubuntu0.1, leosilvabw3m, xenial, 0.5.3-26ubuntu0.2, leosilvabw3m, trusty, 0.5.3-15ubuntu0.2, leosilvab
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 73
apache2, 2.4.29-1ubuntu3, xnoxasterisk, 1:13.18.3~dfsg-1ubuntu3, xnoxawstats, 7.6+dfsg-2, packagesbacula, 9.0.6-1build1, xnoxbind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu3, xnoxbind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu2, ahasenackbind9, 1:9.11.2.P1-1ubuntu1, ahasenackclamav, 0.99.3~beta1+dfsg-2ubuntu2, xnoxcloud-init, 17.2-30-gf7deaf15-0ubuntu1, chad.smithcrmsh, 3.0.1-3, debian-ha-maintainerscyrus-sasl2, 2.1.27~101-g0780600+dfsg-3ubuntu2, xnoxdovecot, 1:2.2.33.2-1ubuntu2, xnoxfetchmail, 6.3.26-3build1, xnoxfreeradius, 3.0.16+dfsg-1ubuntu1, costamagnagianfrancogolang-golang-x-net-dev, 1:0.0+git20170629.c81e7f2+dfsg-2, pkg-go-maintainersgolang-golang-x-sync, 0.0~git20170317.0.5a06fca-2, packageshaproxy, 1.7.9-1ubuntu2, xnoxipmitool, 1.8.18-5build1, xnoxipxe, 1.0.0+git-20180124.fbe8c52d-0ubuntu2, paelzeripxe, 1.0.0+git-20180124.fbe8c52d-0ubuntu1, paelzeripxe-qemu-256k-compat, 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu2, paelzeripxe-qemu-256k-compat, 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu1, paelzerkeepalived, 1:1.3.9-1build1, xnoxkrb5, 1.16-2build1, xnoxldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu4, xnoxldns, 1.7.0-3ubuntu3, xnoxlibcgroup, 0.41-8ubuntu2, xnoxlibesmtp, 1.0.6-4.3build1, xnoxlibp11, 0.4.7-3, pkg-opensc-maintlibp11, 0.4.7-2ubuntu1, xnoxlibpam-mount, 2.16-3build2, xnoxlibrabbitmq, 0.8.0-1build1, xnoxlibsodium, 1.0.16-2, gcslibvirt, 4.0.0-1ubuntu1, paelzerlxd, 2.21-0ubuntu3, stgrabermultipath-tools, 0.7.4-2ubuntu3, juliankmultipath-tools, 0.7.4-2ubuntu2, juliankmysql-5.7, 5.7.21-1ubuntu1, lars-tangvaldnagios-nrpe, 3.2.0-4ubuntu3, xnoxnghttp2, 1.29.0-1build1, xnoxnginx, 1.13.6-2ubuntu2, xnoxnis, 3.17.1-1build1, costamagnagianfranconmap, 7.60-1ubuntu3, xnoxnss, 2:3.35-2ubuntu2, paelzernss, 2:3.35-2ubuntu1, paelzerntp, 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5ubuntu6, xnoxopen-isns, 0.97-2build1, xnoxopen-vm-tools, 2:10.2.0-2build1, xnoxopenhpi, 3.6.1-3.1build1, xnoxpam-p11, 0.1.6-2.1build2, xnoxpam-p11, 0.1.6-2.1build1, xnoxphp-defaults, 60ubuntu1, naccphp7.2, 7.2.1-1ubuntu2, naccphp7.2, 7.2.1-1ubuntu1, naccpollinate, 4.30-0ubuntu1, kirklandpostfix, 3.2.5-1build1, xnoxpuppet, 4.10.4-2ubuntu2, naccpython-cryptography, 2.1.4-1build2, xnoxqemu, 1:2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1, paelzerrrdtool, 1.7.0-0ubuntu4, dokoruby-augeas, 1:0.5.0-3build5, dokoruby-json, 2.1.0+dfsg-1build1, dokoruby-shadow, 2.4.1-1build5, dokoruby2.3, 2.3.6-2build1, dokosiege, 4.0.4-1build1, xnoxsocat, 1.7.3.2-2build1, xnoxspamassassin, 3.4.1-8build1, xnoxsqlparse, 0.2.2-1ubuntu1, vorlonsquid3, 3.5.23-5ubuntu2, mdeslaurunbound, 1.6.7-1build1, xnoxvsftpd, 3.0.3-9build1, xnoxw3m, 0.5.3-36build1, xnoxwalinuxagent, 2.2.21-0ubuntu1, sil2100
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