@Steve Langasek <[email protected]> Will do. Thank you On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 23:38, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ > [email protected] [email protected] > -- Phil Roche Senior Software Engineer Canonical Public Cloud
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