Please backport spectre-meltdown-checker 0.29-1 (universe) from bionic

[Simon Quigley]

Please backport spectre-meltdown-checker 0.29-1 (universe) from bionic to artful.

Reason for the backport:
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In light of the recent Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, it would be a really good idea to have a tool in the archive which allows for checking if these vulnerabilities are patched.

Testing:
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Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.

You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:tsimonq2/backports -s bionic -d artful spectre-meltdown-checker
(which I have done, and it works fine with)

* artful:
[x] Package builds without modification
[x] spectre-meltdown-checker installs cleanly and runs

No reverse dependencies

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Cheers - looks like a new version (0.31) was just uploaded to unstable. Should we wait a minute for that to sync + migrate and backport that one instead? (If so, would you mind testing that one too please?)

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Sure.

wxl pointed out that backporting to Xenial and Trusty may not be a bad idea either, so I'll backport 0.31 to all three of those and test them.

Thanks Iain!

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

Hello,

the backports process has recently been updated, please see the new documentation:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

I'm closing this bug, but please feel free to open a new bug (or reopen this bug) using the new process, if appropriate.