Seeking new Stable Release Update exceptions for Google cloud image agent packages

[Phil Roche]

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.

Thanks,

Phil


-- 
Phil Roche
Senior Software Engineer
Canonical Public Cloud
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