Public bug reported:
In running germinate across all flavors and all releases including ESM -
which was not done for ages, but now collected quite some I found
breaking behavior.
Nov 06 17:01:51 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46383]: 2026-11-06 17:01:51,133 INFO Germinating for
lubuntu/trusty/i386
Nov 06 17:01:51 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46385]: 2026-11-06 17:01:51,853 INFO Germinating for
lubuntu/trusty/ppc64el
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: File "/usr/bin/germinate-ubuntu", line 345, in
_germinate_arch_child
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: seed_outputs = _germinate_arch(*args)
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: File "/usr/bin/germinate-ubuntu", line 326, in
_germinate_arch
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: _write_germinate_output(
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: File "/usr/bin/germinate-ubuntu", line 269, in
_write_germinate_output
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: germinator.write_blacklisted(structure,
path("blacklisted"))
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/germinate/germinator.py", line 2510, in
write_blacklisted
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: blacklist = output._blacklist[pkg]
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46381]: KeyError: 'gconf'
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46380]: 2026-11-06 17:01:53,302 INFO Germinating for
lubuntu/trusty/amd64
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: File "/usr/bin/germinate-ubuntu", line 345, in
_germinate_arch_child
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: seed_outputs = _germinate_arch(*args)
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: File "/usr/bin/germinate-ubuntu", line 326, in
_germinate_arch
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: _write_germinate_output(
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: File "/usr/bin/germinate-ubuntu", line 269, in
_write_germinate_output
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: germinator.write_blacklisted(structure,
path("blacklisted"))
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/germinate/germinator.py", line 2510, in
write_blacklisted
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: blacklist = output._blacklist[pkg]
Nov 06 17:01:53 juju-5699df-stg-ubuntu-static-reports-ps7-2
update-germinate[46382]: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
This is due to an issue in the caching that may carry over the old deny
list from trusty/xenial into later releases and then trigger a KeyError
** Affects: germinate (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Spill over of deny lists across releases
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