On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 08:07:58PM -0000, Scott Moser wrote:
> It is a bug to change content in backwards incompatible ways.  livecd-
> rootfs produced an artifact that is indexed with known-content.  A
> change broke consumers of that content.  Thats a regression.

The definition of a manifest has changed.  This is a consequence of our
image contents having changed; the .manifest file is a reflection of
reality.

That this no longer matches the expectations of consumers (software or
otherwise) of this file is not a bug in the manifest file.  It's an
incompatibility between the reality of what constitutes the content of an
Ubuntu image, and the thing that is parsing the file.

Maintaining format-compatibility with parsers that assume the contents of
the manifest will always be a list of debs + versions would do a
*disservice* to those consumers, by leaving them oblivious to the fact that
the definition has changed.

So no, I don't think livecd-rootfs should provide two manifests and I think
this bug is 'wontfix'.

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