Wishes for +Xenial

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

On 23 January 2016 at 22:56, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>  I'm wondering here about what package versions we'll have on Xenial
> 16.04...
>
>  So, I'm creating a wish list!    :-P
>
>  Upgrades:
>
>  - Apt 1.2
>  - Linux 4.4 (long term) - confirmed
>  - OpenShot 2.0
>  - Ansible 2.0
>  - Docker 1.10.X - better integrated with Ubuntu and with rolling upgrades
> during 16.04 life cycle (like Ubuntu Cloud archive)
>  - QEmu 2.5 - Done - With 3D support (specially for Ubuntu Desktop on KVM)!
>  - Mesa 11.1 - Done
>  - Xen 4.6 - Done!
>  - DPDK 2.2 or 2.3 (new 16.04) with Xen support (for ParaVirt DomUs) -
> confirmed!
>  - Virt-Manager 1.3 and SPICE support (Python 3 deps already in)
>  - Libvirt 1.2.21 - Done!
>  - Samba 4.3 - Done!
>  - SSSD 1.13 - Done!
>  - Wireshark 2 (QT based, no GTK)
>  - nmap 7
>  - InfluxDB 0.9.6 (or newer) - Done!
>  - Prometheus Server 0.16 & Node Exporter (0.12)
>  - MariaDB 10.1.10 plus better support for it (move it for Main Repo)
>  - Vagrant 1.8 - Done - But fully integrated with both KVM/Libvirt and
> VirtualBox
>  - Enlightenment 0.20 & LibEFL 1.16 - https://www.enlightenment.org/download
> with Wayland enabled   ;-)
>  - Terminology 0.9.1
>
>  - blivet-gui: http://blog.vojtechtrefny.cz/blivet-gui instead of GParted ?
>
>
>  And why not, new packages (specially more Go projects)? Like:
>
>  - Consul
>  - Alertmanager (Prometheus)
>  - PromDash (Prometheus)
>  - Packer
>
> More:
>
>  - KVM VirtIO Windows Drivers as ISO but, packaged as .deb
>  - Xen GPLPV Windows Drivers as ISO but, packaged as .deb
>  - Better NodeJS Integration and NPM management
>  - More Ruby Gem as Deb packages
>
>  - Bitcoin/Litecoin Electrum Wallet
>  - Ethereum and IoT Devices?
>  - Bitcoin/Litecoin/Etc integrated with Ubuntu App Store!?
>
> * systemd networkd - drop ifupdowd, please.
>
> LXD fully supported on OpenStack.
>
> ** OpenStack hybrid Compute Node that supports KVM and LXD side-by-side.
>
> Perfect IPv6 support! Especially for OpenStack...
>
>  Dreaming:
>
>  - All Microsoft Open Source projects, .NET (corefx, corectr, etc), Visual
> Studio, everything... Kidding...
>  - Apple Swift available
>
>
>  Bug fixes for:
>
>  * Make Linux Kernel more modular (very important and an easy one):
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475078
>
>
>  * ecryptfs-utils does not work with Ubuntu 14.04.3:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/1328689
>
>  * ubuntu-desktop depends on iBus, which is totally broken:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+source/unity-control-center/+bug/1365752
>
>  * NM disables accept_ra for an IPv6 connection, where it should enable it:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1455967
>
> * Impossible to disable IPv6 auto, params "accept_ra & autoconf = 0" have no
> effect on VLAN interfaces:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1345847
>
> * memcached unable to bind to an ipv6 address:
>  https://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=310
>
>
>  - Samba related bugs:
>
> * Samba4 AD DC randomly dies (4.3 might be better, need to put it in prod
> and see):
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1357471
>
> * Samba4, when with 2003 default level, dies when IPv6 is enabled:
>  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10730
>
>  * Samba has a wrong "Dual-Stack" implementation (I think) - (I'll help to
> prepare a reproducible procedure):
>  https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10729
>
>  * Samba4 get stuck after a server reboot, if IPv6 is enabled:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/1339434/
>
>
>  - A elegant solution for this:
>
>  * Ubuntu does not honor “ignore-hosts” proxy settings for IPv6:
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/d-conf/+bug/1295003
>
>  This problem is interesting, I think that Ubuntu should provide a way to,
> if the proxy is enabled, do a DNS Look up locally, before querying local
> "ignore-hosts" table. This is specially useful, if for example, you have an
> IPv6-Only Ubuntu Desktop, but NEED a Proxy only to browse IPv4 networks.
> What I'm trying to do here is to put the Global IPv6 subnet (2000::/3) in my
> "ignore-hosts", because I don't need a proxy to reach IPv6 hosts, but,
> everything goes to the proxy (because the DNS look up occurs at the Proxy,
> and this sucks sometimes). If someone can point me a different solution to
> this problem, that would be great!
>
>  Sorry about crossposting...   =P
>
> Cheers!
> Thiago

One more Bug that needs to get fixed for Xenial:

Xenial Server daily ISO boot in text mode interface isn't working -
kind of loop:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/syslinux/+bug/1537252

It breaks Packer builds of Xenial...