Hi Phil, On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 05:01:58PM +0100, Phil Roche wrote: > Hi all,
> We at Canonical Public Cloud team build the Ubuntu Google Cloud images and > we often have requests from Google to update the versions of the agent > packages in the images. > There is currently a special case granted for gce-compute-image-packages @ > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases > which was granted in 2017. > > *gce-compute-image-packages*The source package gce-compute-image-packages > > may be uploaded according to the procedure documented in > > gce-compute-image-packages-Updates > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates>. Per > > Technical Board discussion regarding delegation of these decisions to the > > SRU team, this stable release exception has been approved by BrianMurray > > for the SRU team as of 2017-03-10. > Google agent packages have evolved and new packages are now used to provide > the same and additional functionality: > - google-compute-engine > <https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/google-compute-engine> > - google-compute-engine-oslogin > <https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/google-compute-engine-oslogin> > - google-guest-agent > <https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/google-guest-agent> > - google-osconfig-agent > <https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/google-osconfig-agent> > > We seek an exception for these new packages in line with the existing > exception granted for gce-compute-image-packages. > As per > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases > I have drafted new wiki pages for each of these packages: > > - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-compute-engine-Updates > - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-compute-engine-oslogin-Updates > - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-guest-agent-Updates > - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/google-osconfig-agent-Updates > The reason for the exception request is the same as the original request: > 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 %AGENT PAKCAGE% to more recent upstream > > releases is required within all Ubuntu releases, so they continue to > > function properly in their environment. > Please let me know if you need any further information to support this > request. +1 from the SRU team for this exception. Please update https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases to link to these exception pages. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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