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

[Phil Roche]

@Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at canonical.com> Will do. Thank you

On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 23:38, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hi Phil,
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 05:01:58PM +0100, Phil Roche wrote:
> > 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.
>
> +1 from the SRU team for this exception.  Please update
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases
> to link to these exception pages.
>
> --
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>


-- 
Phil Roche
Senior Software Engineer
Canonical Public Cloud
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