ACM/cmnt: LP#1688579 -- remove linux-{gke, aws}-tools-common and linux-{gke, aws}-cloud-tools-common

[Brad Figg]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:52:03PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We are not meant to have more than one linux-tools-common package.
> The recent linux-gke and linux-aws packages incorrectly produced
> their own conflicting packages.  Firstly remove those from the
> packages and mark up linux-tools-common and linux-cloud-tools-common
> as equivalent to those packages so that dpkg will allow those
> to replace the old linux-{gke,aws}-tools-common packages and
> linux-{gke,aws}-cloud-tools-common for existing released kernels.
> 
> The first 3 patches apply to aws, azure, and gke and drop the
> local *-tools-common packages.  The next two patches apply to the
> master branch and annotate its *-tools-common packages so they are
> sharable.  The final patch prevents any further derivative kernels
> from creating these packages.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to xenial.
> 
> -apw
> 
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These patches look good to me. However, I'd like someone with more packaging knowledge
to review them as well for things I may have overlooked.

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