** Description changed:

  === Begin SRU Template ===
  [Impact]
  The key change is that the user agent string as of Zesty and Artful now
  contains the contents of /proc/uptime. In aggregate, this gives us
  important performance data to detect improvements and regressions in
  Ubuntu boot times.
  
  [Test Case]
  Pollinate does not provide an easy way to test either of the changes
  that were added.
  
  The two changes are:
  a.) the defaults file /etc/default/pollinate file was sourced twice during
  execution. That was unlikely to cause issue, but the cleanup removed
  unnecessary duplication.
  
  b.) uptime is read from /proc/cpuinfo and added to the USER_AGENT
  variable that is fed to curl.
  
  So realistically the best test is to just check for regression.  Note
  that this cannot be done in a container as pollinate does not run
  in a container.
  
  a.) start an instance
  b.) enable proposed, install updated pollinate.
  c.) rm -Rf /var/cache/pollinate/
  d.) reboot
  e.) look at status of pollinate:
      service pollinate status.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  The script runs with 'set -e', and reads from /proc/uptime with:
     read up idle < /proc/uptime
  
  That means that the 'pollinate' script will exit failure if either:
  a.) /proc/uptime did not exist (possibly proc not mounted)
  b.) a read error occurred.
  
  These scenarios seem unlikely, especially in Ubuntu environments.
  The upstream code should check to at least check the readability of
- /proc/uptime first.
+ /proc/uptime first.  I've filed bug 1708461 to address that issue
+ and submitted a merge proposal for a fix.
  
  [Other Info]
  The reading of up/idle from uptime was originally added under bug 1638552.
  === End SRU Template ===

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