[Bug 1981109] Re: server image pulls in ModemManager via fwupd, consumes 25MiB RAM in every container

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This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.765.13

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livecd-rootfs (2.765.13) jammy; urgency=medium

  [ Heinrich Schuchardt ]
  * Backporting patches to support new RISC-V platforms (LP: #1997233)
  * Add support for the LicheeRV board (SUBARCH=licheerv)
  * Add support for the PolarFire Icicle Kit board (SUBARCH=icicle)
  * Reduce initrd size for Nezha and LicheeRV boards
  * Use efi=debug earlycon on kernel command line

livecd-rootfs (2.765.12) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Remove fwupd, modemmanager, and udisks2 from the cloud images.
    LP: #1981109.

 -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak at ubuntu.com>  Mon, 21 Nov
2022 11:18:14 +0100

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Jammy)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  server image pulls in ModemManager via fwupd, consumes 25MiB RAM in
  every container

Status in fwupd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in modemmanager package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fwupd source package in Jammy:
  Invalid
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Jammy:
  Fix Released
Status in modemmanager source package in Jammy:
  New
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Jammy:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Cloud images should not have fwupd, modemmanager, and udisks2
  installed as those are not needed and only taking up memory.

  [Test Case]

  Build cloud images with livecd-rootfs and confirm that fwupd,
  modemmanager, and udisks2 are not present and not running.

  [Regression Potential]

  Only thing that might happen is for any of the 3 listed packages
  getting removed from images where they might be used. So possibly
  double-checking if this will affect preinstalled server images and if
  they care about this or not.

  [Original Description]

  Looking at memory utilization in a pristine Ubuntu lxd container (top
  -o RES), I see that ModemManager is running, which I was surprised to
  see is present at all in the stock image.

  Tracking this I find that fwupd depends on libmm-glib0, which in turn
  Recommends: modemmanager.

  Libraries in general should not recommend daemons, so it's possible
  this should be fixed by libmm-glib0 dropping this Recommends.  It
  certainly doesn't seem to be a deliberate decision by the Server Team
  to have modemmanager installed and running by default on all systems.

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