Setup Always-Include-Phased-Updates (for hirsute+)

[Julian Andres Klode]

[Impact]
APT 2.2.4 and newer, in hirsute-proposed, apply phasing to non-installed packages as well, to fix bug 1925745. This causes autopkgtest to no longer retrieve source packages (apt-get source still works fine), and hence the tests to fail - example:

https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-hirsute/hirsute/amd64/u/ubuntu-advantage-tools/20210618_132205_96afa@/log.gz

We need to change setup-testbed to set APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates to true, as we did on the infrastructure and merged upstream in https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/autopkgtest/-/merge_requests/125

We set this unconditionally, it's a no-op for older releases.

[Test plan]
Correctness of the APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates feature is checked by the APT test suite. We only need to validate that the correct line is being written to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90always-include-phased-updates.

Run autopkgtest-build-lxd or autopkgtest-buildvm-ubuntu-cloud to create a new hirsute image and check that the file sets the option.

[Where problems could occur]
Syntax could be wrong, and hence building images could fail.

Semantics should arguably be more correct, as Always-Include-Phased-Updates is the legacy apt behavior against which autopkgtest was developed.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted autopkgtest into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/5.16ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-hirsute to verification-done-hirsute. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-hirsute. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted autopkgtest into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/5.11ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted autopkgtest into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autopkgtest/5.3.1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted autopkgtest (5.11ubuntu1.1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

notepadqq/2.0.0~beta1-1build1 (armhf)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#autopkgtest

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 5.16ubuntu1

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autopkgtest (5.16ubuntu1) impish; urgency=medium

  * setup-testbed: Set Always-Include-Phased-Updates for apt (LP: #1934100)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:32:27 +0200

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

bionic looks good, in fresh multipass VM:

[...]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64 autopkgtest all 5.3.1ubuntu1.1 [126 kB]
[...]
ubuntu@bionic:~$ autopkgtest-build-lxd ubuntu:hirsute
[...]
ubuntu@bionic:~$ lxc launch autopkgtest/ubuntu/hirsute/amd64 t
Creating t
Starting t
ubuntu@bionic:~$ lxc exec t cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90always-include-phased-updates
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";
ubuntu@bionic:~$ lxc exec t apt-config dump | grep -i phased-updates
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

focal 👍

ubuntu@focal:~$ sudo apt install autopkgtest
[...]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 autopkgtest all 5.11ubuntu1.1 [137 kB]
[...]
ubuntu@focal:~$ autopkgtest-build-lxd ubuntu:hirsute
[...]
ubuntu@focal:~$ lxc launch autopkgtest/ubuntu/hirsute/amd64 t
Creating t
Starting t
ubuntu@focal:~$ lxc exec t cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90always-include-phased-updates
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";
ubuntu@focal:~$ lxc exec t apt-config dump | grep -i phased-updates
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

hirsute 👍 - all releases verified now

ubuntu@hirsute:~$ sudo apt install autopkgtest
[...]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-proposed/main amd64 autopkgtest all 5.16ubuntu0.1 [141 kB]
[...]
ubuntu@hirsute:~$ lxd init --auto
ubuntu@hirsute:~$ autopkgtest-build-lxd ubuntu:hirsute
[...}
ubuntu@hirsute:~$ lxc launch autopkgtest/ubuntu/hirsute/amd64 t
Creating t
Starting t
ubuntu@hirsute:~$ lxc exec t cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90always-include-phased-updates
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";
ubuntu@hirsute:~$ lxc exec t apt-config dump | grep -i phased-updates
APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates "true";

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 5.16ubuntu0.1

---------------
autopkgtest (5.16ubuntu0.1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * setup-testbed: Set Always-Include-Phased-Updates for apt (LP: #1934100)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:35:01 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for autopkgtest has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 5.11ubuntu1.1

---------------
autopkgtest (5.11ubuntu1.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * setup-testbed: Set Always-Include-Phased-Updates for apt (LP: #1934100)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:37:39 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package autopkgtest - 5.3.1ubuntu1.1

---------------
autopkgtest (5.3.1ubuntu1.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * setup-testbed: Set Always-Include-Phased-Updates for apt (LP: #1934100)

autopkgtest (5.3.1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * tools/autopkgtest-build-lxd: pass /dev/null on stdin to lxc launch
    (LP: #1845037)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:39:03 +0200