[FFe] Please accept systemd 241 to Eoan

[Balint Reczey]

Eoan currently has 240-6ubuntu13, but it is not used widely, Debian stable already has 241 and Debian testing moved to 242 last week.
Version 241 is the safest choice for Eoan (from v240, v241 and v242) since it is widely tested, while going forward 20.04 will most likely ship a systemd release which is not released yet, probably v244+.

Updating to v241 will allow us to carry fewer patches in Eoan and makes moving to the next release easier.

The proposed package is tested in Bileto and all tests are passing:
https://bileto.ubuntu.com/#/ticket/3789

The final version will be 241-7ubuntu1 and I'm tidying up the changelog, too.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

I have uploaded the version for eoan to ppa:rbalint/scratch3
Changes from the bileto-tested version: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/QJFGPf4HB2/

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

Autopkgtest passing on s390x:
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-eoan-rbalint-scratch3/eoan/s390x/s/systemd/20190828_180654_f1072@/log.gz

Autopkgtest failing once on amd64 which is strange, since it passed in Bileto and there were no related changes:
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-eoan-rbalint-scratch3/eoan/amd64/s/systemd/20190828_185123_f1072@/log.gz
I reran it and it should just be flaky or unrelated to systemd.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

For a long time we had v243 rc in proposed, however we have identified that it has too many regressions. And whilst regressions are getting fixed upstream, we decided to pull it and start doing slightly more incremental updates to systemd and jump to v243 final in stages.

Imho this shouldn't require FFe cause we did have v243 in -proposed, and are still trying to get there in stages.

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

@xnox I asked @vorlon on #ubuntu-release yesterday and he said he could not give a proper review which I consider as an answer implying that I don't get an easy free pass.
I think the upload is as well tested by Bileto as reasonably can be and a safe upload but I don't want to break the freeze without approval.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Ok, the bileto systemd package seems to look sane, although it's a really hard thing to review. The tests not being green seems reassuring I'd say. I somewhat agree that having both 242 and 243 rc in already -proposed at one point does seem like a plus, but on the other side their removal means there were unsuspected regressions. That being said, I am willing to take the risk so early after Feature Freeze.

Let's make sure to check if the regressions we saw with 243 and 242 aren't visible here (if those weren't visible via autopkgtests of course). Anyway, +1 on the FFe. Please upload as soon as possible.