Add gce-compute-image-packages to the ubuntu-cloud packageset

[Adam Conrad]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:36:52PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> 
> Dan asked for gce-compute-image-packages to be added to the ubuntu-cloud
> packageset, which seems fine to me. But when checking out the package I
> noticed that it is unseeded and in universe. This seems to be at odds to
> me that it is "installed in the official Ubuntu images on GCE". So I
> thought I'd check, since that seems to be a departure from the usual way
> of doing things.

I'm not sure I understand what you're driving at here.  Being in a
packageset (for upload privs) doesn't relate to how it's seeded or
installed.

The various bits and bobs for public clouds are added to the each
cloud's images at build time, so they don't have to have all the
tools on all the clouds, which would be useless, bloaty, and might
even conflict with each other.

> Should this be in main? Or in the Canonical partner repository? Or
> somewhere else? How should it be seeded, if at all?

It shouldn't be in partner.  They could perhaps be encouraged to
do MIRs for all their cloud-specific bits that might be in universe
and the like, but since they're supported by the CPC team (and their
upstreams), rather than by the community as a whole or the Canonical
security team, the distinction is perhaps slightly less important.

... Adam