SRU of LXC 2.0.5 (upstream bugfix release)

[Stéphane Graber]

LXC upstream released LXC 2.0.5 as a bugfix release with following changelog:
  - Fix .gitignore after /tools/ split
  - Add lxc-test-utils to .gitignore
  - bdev: use correct overlay module name
  - cleanup: tools: remove --name from lxc-top usage message
  - cleanup: whitespaces in option alignment for lxc-execute
  - Use full GPG fingerprint instead of long IDs.
  - tools: move --rcfile to the common options list
  - tools: set configfile after load_config
  - doc: add --rcfile to common opts
  - doc: Update Korean lxc-attach(1)
  - doc: Add --rcfile to Korean common opts
  - doc: Add --rcfile to Japanese common opts
  - tools: use exit(EXIT_*) everywhere
  - tools: unify exit() calls outside of main()
  - utils: Add mips signalfd syscall numbers
  - seccomp: Implement MIPS seccomp handling
  - seccomp: Add mips and mips64 entries to lxc_config_parse_arch
  - seccomp: fix strerror()
  - confile: add more archs to lxc_config_parse_arch()
  - seccomp: add support for s390x
  - seccomp: remove double include and order includes
  - seccomp: non functional changes
  - templates: use fd 9 instead of 200
  - templates: fedora requires openssl binary
  - tools: use boolean for ret in lxc_device.c
  - c/r: use /proc/self/tid/children instead of pidfile
  - c/r: Fix pid_t on some arches
  - templates: Add mips hostarch detection to debian
  - cleanup: replace tabs wth spaces in usage strings
  - remove extra 'ret'
  - c/r: write status only after trying to parse the pid
  - set FULL_PATH_NAMES=NO in doc/api/Doxyfile
  - templates: rm halt.target -> sigpwr.target symlink
  - templates: remove creation of bogus directory
  - console: use correct log name
  - configure: add --disable-werror
  - tests: fix get_item tests
  - templates: use correct cron version in alpine template
  - c/r: zero a smaller than known migrate_opts struct
  - lxczfs: small fixes
  - c/r: free valid_opts if necessary
  - make rsync deal with sparse files efficiently
  - lxc-create -t debian fails on ppc64el arch
  - c/r: fix typo in comment
  - cgroup: add new functions for interacting with hierachies
  - utils: add lxc_deslashify
  - c/r: pass --cgroup-roots on checkpoint
  - cgroup: get rid of weird hack in cgfsng_escape
  - cgroup: drop cgroup_canonical_path
  - c/r: check that cgroup_num_hierarchies > 0
  - tools: do not add trailing spaces on lxc-ls -1
  - conf: retrieve mtu from netdev->link
  - conf: try to retrieve mtu from veth
  - c/r: detatch from controlling tty on restore
  - Fix null derefence if attach is called without access to any tty
  - utils: fix lxc_string_split()
  - tools: lxc_deslashify() handle special cases
  - tests: add unit tests for lxc_deslashify()
  - Fix for ALTLinux container creation in all branches
  - utils: lxc_deslashify() free memory
  - Fix spelling of CentOS in the templates
  - Define LXC_DEVEL to detect development releases
  - tools: lxc-checkconfig conditionalize devpts check

Just like Ubuntu itself, upstream releases long term support releases, as is 2.0 and then periodic point releases including all the accumulated bugfixes.

Only the latest upstream release gets full support from the upstream developers, everyone else is expected to first update to it before receiving any kind of support.

This bugfix release has already been uploaded to Yakkety and automatically backported in the upstream PPAs for all Ubuntu releases. So far without any reported regression.

This should qualify under the minor upstream bugfix release allowance of the SRU policy, letting us SRU this without paperwork for every single change included in this upstream release.

Once the SRU hits -updates, we will be backporting this to trusty-backports as well, making sure we have the same version everywhere.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Been running this for a week now, haven't run into problems.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1

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lxc (2.0.5-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release (2.0.5) (LP: #1632144)
    - Fix .gitignore after /tools/ split
    - Add lxc-test-utils to .gitignore
    - bdev: use correct overlay module name
    - cleanup: tools: remove --name from lxc-top usage message
    - cleanup: whitespaces in option alignment for lxc-execute
    - Use full GPG fingerprint instead of long IDs.
    - tools: move --rcfile to the common options list
    - tools: set configfile after load_config
    - doc: add --rcfile to common opts
    - doc: Update Korean lxc-attach(1)
    - doc: Add --rcfile to Korean common opts
    - doc: Add --rcfile to Japanese common opts
    - tools: use exit(EXIT_*) everywhere
    - tools: unify exit() calls outside of main()
    - utils: Add mips signalfd syscall numbers
    - seccomp: Implement MIPS seccomp handling
    - seccomp: Add mips and mips64 entries to lxc_config_parse_arch
    - seccomp: fix strerror()
    - confile: add more archs to lxc_config_parse_arch()
    - seccomp: add support for s390x
    - seccomp: remove double include and order includes
    - seccomp: non functional changes
    - templates: use fd 9 instead of 200
    - templates: fedora requires openssl binary
    - tools: use boolean for ret in lxc_device.c
    - c/r: use /proc/self/tid/children instead of pidfile
    - c/r: Fix pid_t on some arches
    - templates: Add mips hostarch detection to debian
    - cleanup: replace tabs wth spaces in usage strings
    - remove extra 'ret'
    - c/r: write status only after trying to parse the pid
    - set FULL_PATH_NAMES=NO in doc/api/Doxyfile
    - templates: rm halt.target -> sigpwr.target symlink
    - templates: remove creation of bogus directory
    - console: use correct log name
    - configure: add --disable-werror
    - tests: fix get_item tests
    - templates: use correct cron version in alpine template
    - c/r: zero a smaller than known migrate_opts struct
    - lxczfs: small fixes
    - c/r: free valid_opts if necessary
    - make rsync deal with sparse files efficiently
    - lxc-create -t debian fails on ppc64el arch
    - c/r: fix typo in comment
    - cgroup: add new functions for interacting with hierachies
    - utils: add lxc_deslashify
    - c/r: pass --cgroup-roots on checkpoint
    - cgroup: get rid of weird hack in cgfsng_escape
    - cgroup: drop cgroup_canonical_path
    - c/r: check that cgroup_num_hierarchies > 0
    - tools: do not add trailing spaces on lxc-ls -1
    - conf: retrieve mtu from netdev->link
    - conf: try to retrieve mtu from veth
    - c/r: detatch from controlling tty on restore
    - Fix null derefence if attach is called without access to any tty
    - utils: fix lxc_string_split()
    - tools: lxc_deslashify() handle special cases
    - tests: add unit tests for lxc_deslashify()
    - Fix for ALTLinux container creation in all branches
    - utils: lxc_deslashify() free memory
    - Fix spelling of CentOS in the templates
    - Define LXC_DEVEL to detect development releases
    - tools: lxc-checkconfig conditionalize devpts check
  * Drop al...

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for lxc has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.