I noticed recently that the images debian-cloud-testing images were lasted updated in August, which seems quite out-of-date compared to the images in debian-cloud.
% gcloud compute images list --project debian-cloud-testing --no-standard-images NAME PROJECT FAMILY DEPRECATED STATUS debian-10-buster-v20180823 debian-cloud-testing debian-10 READY debian-9-stretch-v20180820 debian-cloud-testing debian-9 READY % gcloud compute images list --project debian-cloud --no-standard-images NAME PROJECT FAMILY DEPRECATED STATUS debian-9-stretch-v20181113 debian-cloud debian-9 READY It wasn't clear to me who was responsible for updating debian-cloud-testing. I asked internally inside Google, and I got a response that normally it wasn't Google's Cloud Image team which updates the debian-cloud-testing project, but rather Debian. The person who responded said they did have access so they *could* update it, but I was concerned that if in fact this project was owned by debian-cloud, it would step on toes if I asked the Google Cloud team to update images in debian-cloud-testing project. The main reason why I'm asking is because I'm interested in doing some testing with Debian Buster, and the Buster has changed significantly since August. Specifically, the grub package has changed enough that simply doing a "apt-get update ; apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs upgrade" results in a non-functional image when the automated script[1] finishes. [1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/gce-xfstests-bld.sh I've since found a workaround, using: apt-get update apt-get install -y debconf-utils curl debconf-set-selections <<EOF grub-pc grub-pc/install_devices multiselect /dev/sda EOF export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y --with-new-pkgs upgrade .... so it's not urgent for me; but it would be nice if a nicer Buster image was made available to debian-cloud-testing so others don't run into the problems that I did. I just want to make sure it happens in the right way without anyone feeling bypassed in the process. Thanks!! - Ted
