MAAS packages for bionic are beta in ppa:maas/2.7

[David Coronel]

There are beta versions of MAAS in the stable MAAS PPAs.

The MAAS package versions in ppa:maas/2.7 are:

bionic:
maas | 2.7.1~beta1-8260-g.c0c9e2acd-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/maas/2.7/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

eoan:
maas | 2.7.0-8232-g.6e1dba4ab-0ubuntu1~19.10.1 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/maas/2.7/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages

focal:
maas | 2.7.0-8232-g.6e1dba4ab-0ubuntu1~20.04.1 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/maas/2.7/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

bionic is the only ubuntu release with a beta version of maas 2.7.

The MAAS documentation[1] says:

"You can install a newer stable version via PPAs listed on the MAAS launchpad, including [...] ppa:maas/2.7"

There is a conflict with the MAAS docs announcing that PPA as stable and the beta packages being built in that PPA. It seems as though the stable PPA is being used to build the beta versions. Only stable versions should be published in those MAAS PPAs (ie. ppa:maas/2.6, ppa:maas/2.7, etc.).

This causes users using that PPA to automatically upgrade to the beta release when they do an apt upgrade or when unattended upgrades kicks off.

[1] https://maas.io/docs/install-from-packages

[David Coronel (davecore)]

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