3) Very important, AFAICT, there are non-trivial changes to:
- Network configuration management
- OS login and SSH
- networkctl/dhclient

In order to mitigate the regression potential of _inaccessible instances_
after a _package upgrade_ (and maybe reboot), can we have a confirmation
of such testing when it is performed?

Thanks,
Mauricio

** Description changed:

  Following on from previous similar package update requests @ LP:
  #2073163, LP: #2040945 and LP: #2018272, this bug is a request to update
  the google-guest-agent package to the upstream version `20241011.01` @
  https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-
  agent/releases/tag/20241011.01
  
  This package has an SRU exception @
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#google-guest-agent
  including an ageing exception detailed @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-
  guest-agent-Updates
  
  [Impact]
  
  This package is provided by Google for installation within guests that
  run on Google Compute Engine. It is part of a collection of tools and
  daemons, that ensure that the Ubuntu images published to GCE run
  properly on their platform.
  
  Cloud platforms evolve at a rate that can't be handled in six-month
  increments, and they will often develop features that they would like to
  be available to customers who don't want to upgrade from earlier Ubuntu
  releases. As such, updating this package to more recent upstream
  releases is required within all Ubuntu releases, so they continue to
  function properly in their environment.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  When a new version of this package is uploaded to -proposed, the
  following will happen:
  
-  * an image based on -proposed will be built for GCE and published to the 
ubuntu-os-cloud-devel project
-  * the GCE team will be asked to validate that the new package addresses the 
issues it is expected to address, and that the image passes their internal 
image validation.
+  * an image based on -proposed will be built for GCE and published to the 
ubuntu-os-cloud-devel project
+  * the GCE team will be asked to validate that the new package addresses the 
issues it is expected to address, and that the image passes their internal 
image validation.
  
  If all the testing indicates that the image containing the new package
  is acceptable, verification will be considered to be done.
  
  [Vendored Dependency]
  
  TBD
+ 
+ (SRU team: see comment 2)
  
  [Where Problems Could Occur]
  
  There are many upstream changes in `20241011.01-0ubuntu1` vs.
  `20240716.00-0ubuntu1`; however between the guest-test-infra suite [0]
  (which is run for validation by CPC _and_ Google) and CPC's own internal
  test harness (CTF), there is confidence that most if not all "edge
  cases" and/or obvious regressions concerns can be dismissed before the
  new version lands in `-updates`
+ 
+ (SRU team: see comment 3)
  
  [Other Information]
  
  This bug is used for tracking of releasing the new upstream version for
  all supported series, as per the approved policy mentioned in the
  following MRE:
  
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-guest-agent-Updates
  
  The updated package is not built for armhf and riscv64 due to upstream
  regressions but the package is not used on those architectures thus
  please release the SRU without the armhf and risc64 binaries.
  
  The package does not build for powerpc on Xenial, but this is OK since
  it is not used on powerpc either.
  
  [0]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-test-infra

** Changed in: google-guest-agent (Ubuntu Oracular)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-oracular

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2084498

Title:
  Please update to 20241011.01

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/google-guest-agent/+bug/2084498/+subscriptions


-- 
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs

Reply via email to