MRE request for HAProxy

[Lukasz Zemczak]

Hello Lucas!

Thanks for submitting the MRE. It looks decent, I'm willing to approve
it as it is.

Checking the upstream CI tests, I like it that they have so many
different tests running on Ubuntu - that's a plus for sure. But I
guess they're all running on focal, right? Do you know if they're
running any other Ubuntu versions for their various testing?
It's certainly a bit unfortunate that the autopkgtest/buildtime
testing story isn't great. I appreciate their upstream testing story
on Ubuntu, but autopkgtests give us the power to know the testing
state on the exact series and, also, whether other, dependent package
changes won't regress haproxy itself. So please continue working on
improving the ADT testing story for the future!
Is there any exploratory testing one can do in the meantime? Or do the
existing autopkgtests handle all the base testing already?

Anyway, we can always improve on the process. I'll add this exception
to the exception list now - you may proceed with preparing updates.

Best regards,

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 17:01, Lucas Kanashiro <kanashiro at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to request a Micro Release Exception for the HAProxy package in all supported Ubuntu LTS releases. I put together a wiki page describing everything I judged pertinent to the MRE here:
>
>           https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HAProxyUpdates
>
> In all Ubuntu LTS releases we have LTS versions of HAProxy and upstream has carefully fixed bugs in them.
>
> Unfortunately, the package does not run upstream tests during build time because it relies on an external framework for testing (better explained in the wiki page), however, upstream has defined some great CI pipelines which run all the tests and more against all the supported branches. The package does contain some DEP-8 tests, and we (Server team) have been working to increase the coverage, for instance we have added a couple of SSL related tests in Ubuntu and they are already merged in Debian (will be available in the next upload). If the MRE is granted for HAProxy, all the new DEP-8 tests will be included in the future releases.
>
> Thank you in advance for considering this request, and please let me know if you need more information.
>
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