[Cpc-gcp] Re: Seeking new Stable Release Update exceptions for Google cloud image agent packages - further amendments

[Phil Roche]

Thank you.

All wiki pages including the main
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#gce-compute-image-packages
page have been updated to reflect this amendment.

Phil

On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 16:34, Lukasz Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hey Phil!
>
> That sounds good to me. I would like for the team to try finding the
> changes lists for those vendored updates as frequently as possible,
> only missing out on them when it's really non-trivial to get this
> changeset.
> Please note that depending on the contents of the changelogs the SRU
> team might request additional testing!
>
> Please proceed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 17:20, Phil Roche <phil.roche at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > > This feels sensible to me. Do you have any proposal for the amendments
> > > to the MREs for the Google cloud packages?
> >
> > Yes your suggestions make sense
> >
> > I propose that the following policies
> >
> > * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates
> > * 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
> >
> > be updated stating that if any of the vendored dependencies have changed
> in the process of updating this package then:
> >
> > * Details of vendored package version changes are present in the SRU bug
> > * If possible, links to changelogs for the vendored packages are also
> present in the SRU bug
> >
> > Would this be sufficient?
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 16:07, Lukasz Zemczak <
> lukasz.zemczak at canonical.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Phil, Utkarsh,
> >>
> >> This feels sensible to me. Do you have any proposal for the amendments
> >> to the MREs for the Google cloud packages?
> >> I think it would be good if we required outlining the vendored package
> >> version changes in the SRU template, at least for documentation
> >> purposes. At least listing the changes of those vendor packages -
> >> maybe even a link to the changelogs, if possible. The latter might or
> >> might-not be difficult, so I wouldn't consider it a hard requirement
> >> though.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 16:52, Utkarsh Gupta <
> utkarsh.gupta at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 8:05 PM Phil Roche <phil.roche at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> >> > > Re-opening this topic seeking an amendment to the Stable Release
> >> > > Update exceptions for Google cloud image agent packages.
> >> > > The Google Guest agents are written in golang and have
> >> > > dependencies vendored.
> >> > > See
> https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent/blob/main/go.mod
> >> > > The amendment to the Stable Release Update exception is that the
> >> > > exception will explicitly cover the updating of the pinned
> dependencies too.
> >> >
> >> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/google-guest-agent/+bug/1896246
> >> >
> >> > This exists and was signed off in the past. I just want to make it
> >> > explicitly clear and document this so that there are no concerns from
> >> > the SRU team. :)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > - u
> >> >
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> Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak
>  Foundations Team
>  Tools Squad Interim Engineering Manager
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Phil Roche
Staff Software Engineer
Canonical Public Cloud
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