ACK-ish: [SRU bionic] linux-buildinfo support

[Kamal Mostafa]

As discussed offline, ACK to all except for this commit:

    - [Packaging] buildinfo -- switch getabis configuration to new package

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal


On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 12:55:08PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Add linux-buildinfo package support.  This package contains all of the
> ABI information accumulated during the build.  This means we no longer
> have to install that data onto the end-user system, and means we only 
> have to download the ABI data when doing getabis.
> 
> Pull request below.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to bionic.
> 
> -apw
> 
> The following changes since commit 9b820c951b75fbae2d2313377b70107a3e7f49fa:
> 
>   ALSA: rawmidi: Change resized buffers atomically (2018-11-29 02:41:15 -0500)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.launchpad.net/~apw/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/bionic linux-buildinfo
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 4e1ec0a0b1cbebb60e07424eaffbdc768e0dd535:
> 
>   UBUNTU: [Config] buildinfo -- add retpoline version markers (2018-12-03 12:21:06 +0000)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   * linux-buildinfo: pull out ABI information into its own package
>     (LP: #1806380)
>     - [Packaging] limit preparation to linux-libc-dev in headers
>     - [Packaging] commonise debhelper invocation
>     - [Packaging] ABI -- accumulate abi information at the end of the build
>     - [Packaging] buildinfo -- add basic build information
>     - [Packaging] buildinfo -- add firmware information to the flavour ABI
>     - [Packaging] buildinfo -- add compiler information to the flavour ABI
>     - [Packaging] buildinfo -- add buildinfo support to getabis
>     - [Packaging] buildinfo -- switch getabis configuration to new package
>     - [Config] buildinfo -- add retpoline version markers
> 
>   * linux packages should own /usr/lib/linux/triggers (LP: #1770256)
>     - [Packaging] own /usr/lib/linux/triggers
> 
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