Seems like something is broken in the "package=" mechanism behaviour. The no longer running plugins that we have identified coincide with recent package add commit :
18ab068 [dbus] add missing packages list 3d0ea25 [cron] add missing packages list 0348833 [acpid] add missing packages list .... After a bisect the upstream offending commit is : 82e4ee2 [sosreport] add per-plugin package verification lists - Eric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of STS Sponsors, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734983 Title: Request to backport sosreport v3.5 Status in sosreport package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in sosreport source package in Trusty: New Status in sosreport source package in Xenial: New Status in sosreport source package in Zesty: New Status in sosreport source package in Artful: New Status in sosreport source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: *** DRAFT in progress *** [Impact] Canonical support team (AKA STS) largely depend on sosreport package to troubleshoot system. sosreport is always in constant development including new bugfixes, new features such as new plugins[1], .... that can be interesting to have in a support context. v3.5 is already found in devel release (bionic). We create this LP in the attempt to justify the SRU of v3.5 backport into current supported stable releases. [1] - New plugins for : * perl * boom * vdo * os_net_config * conntrackd * ovirt_imageio * nss * sas3ircu * openstack_aodh * docker_distribution * gluster_block * snappy Plugin API enhancements * Plugin triggers by executable name * Improved log size limit handling * Better handling of compressed log files * Per-plugin package verification lists Updates to 227 plugins [Test Case] * Install sosreport $ apt-get install sosreport * Run sosreport $ sosreport -a $ sosreport -o <PLUGIN> $ ... * Make sure it generate a tar.xz file in /tmp in the form of "/tmp/sosreport-<HOSTNAME>-<DATE>.tar.xz" * Extract files from archive tar Jxvf /tmp/sosreport-<HOSTNAME>-<DATE>.tar.xz * Look the content of sosreport, make sure the information is accurate and valid, .... [Regression Potential] * We don't expect regression, autopkgtest[2] didn't reveal any nor our testing. [2] - See Comment #1 [Other Info] * Sosreport upstream : https://github.com/sosreport/sos * rmadison -u debian,ubuntu sosreport debian: sosreport | 3.2-2 | oldstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.2-2 | oldstable-kfreebsd | source, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386 sosreport | 3.3+git50-g3c0349b-2 | stable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.5-1 | testing | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.5-1 | unstable | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x ubuntu: sosreport | 3.0-1~ubuntu12.04.1 | precise-backports/universe | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, powerpc sosreport | 3.1-1ubuntu2 | trusty | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el sosreport | 3.1-1ubuntu2.2 | trusty-security | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el sosreport | 3.2-2~ubuntu14.04.1 | trusty-backports | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el sosreport | 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3ubuntu1 | xenial | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.3+git50-g3c0349b-2 | zesty | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.4-1~ubuntu14.04.1 | trusty-updates | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el sosreport | 3.4-1~ubuntu16.04.1 | xenial-updates | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.4-1~ubuntu17.04.1 | zesty-updates | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.4-1 | artful | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x sosreport | 3.5-1 | bionic | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sosreport/+bug/1734983/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors Post to : sts-sponsors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sts-sponsors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
