[Bug 1077148] Re: Package walinuxagent version 1.2

[Ben Howard]

** Description changed:

- Microsoft requested version 1.2
+ [IMPACT]
+ Microsoft has requested a new version of walinuxagent for Windows Azure. Due to this package only affecting Windows Azure instances, this has minimial impoact outside of Azure. 
+ 
+ This package fixes the following issues:
+     - Added - load ata_piix.ko module loaded if needed for CDROM device support
+     - Additional logging for DoDhcpWork()
+     - Update sock.recv timeout from 30 to 10 seconds
+     - Fix: Linux waagent deprovision, user is not deleted properly
+     - Fix: Make LBProbeResponder construction more robust
+     - Fix: Agent fails to provision user with public/private key pairs
+     - Fix: DHCP broadcast response not received
+     - Fix: Linux agent fails to delete root user password
+     - Fix: Linux agent should report error messages to Fabric when
+            passed an invalid hostname.
+ 
+ Microsoft reports that with out this new version of the Windows Azure
+ agent, there is a 25% chance of provisioning failures. Therefore, this
+ patch is urgently needed as a SRU.
+ 
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ N/A
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ Limited; this package has been testing in raring already and is only used in Azure hosted instances.
+ 
+ [Original Bug Report]
+ Microsoft has asked us to package WALinuxAgent version 1.2

** Changed in: walinuxagent (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-13.04

** Summary changed:

- Package walinuxagent version 1.2
+ [SRU] Package/update walinuxagent version 1.2

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  [SRU] Package/update walinuxagent version 1.2

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