system-info.version in YAML output needs ' ' quoting

[Colin Ian King]

== SRU Justification HIRSUTE/FOCAL ==

[Impact]

The system information YAML output from stress-ng is not quoting the system-info.version data. If this contains # then it really confuses YAML parsers.

[The Fix]

Upstream fix:

commit a52f236917f51a4fdc54873cc6ca33e24df1a41f
Author: Fabien Malfoy <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 14 12:16:09 2021 +0200

    core-helper: Quote the system-info.version value in YAML metrics

[Test Plan]

Run:

stress-ng -Y output.yaml --cpu 1 -t 1

Examine the output.yaml file for the system-info version: field. Without the fix it is not in quotes. With the fix it is in ' ' quotes, e.g.:

      version: '#12 SMP Thu Jul 22 08:02:41 UTC 2021'

[Where problems could occur]

This changes just the yaml output and makes it now parsable. Problems may occur if folk have put in a workaround to parse the original buggy output.

The change does not affect core stress-ng functionality, so regression potential of breaking stress-ng is very small.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Fixed in stress-ng V0.13.02 (impish)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Colin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted stress-ng into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/stress-ng/0.11.07-1ubuntu1 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 Colin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted stress-ng into hirsute-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/stress-ng/0.12.06-1ubuntu1 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.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Tested Hirsute, version field now has ' ' quotes:

--
system-info:
      stress-ng-version: 0.12.06
      run-by: cking
      date-yyyy-mm-dd: 2021:09:15
      time-hh-mm-ss: 08:50:04
      epoch-secs: 1631695804
      hostname: hirsute-amd64-efi
      sysname: Linux
      nodename: hirsute-amd64-efi
      release: 5.11.0-34-generic
      version: '#36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 26 19:22:09 UTC 2021'
      machine: x86_64
      uptime: 660
      totalram: 4112830464
      freeram: 2290266112
      sharedram: 3575808
      bufferram: 84979712
      totalswap: 4112510976
      freeswap: 4112510976
      pagesize: 4096
      cpus: 2
      cpus-online: 2

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

Tested Focal, version field now has ' ' quotes:

---
system-info:
      stress-ng-version: 0.11.07
      run-by: cking
      date-yyyy-mm-dd: 2021:09:15
      time-hh-mm-ss: 08:58:13
      epoch-secs: 1631696293
      hostname: focal-amd64-efi
      sysname: Linux
      nodename: focal-amd64-efi
      release: 5.4.0-52-generic
      version: '#57-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 15 10:57:00 UTC 2020'
      machine: x86_64
      uptime: 1262
      totalram: 4122370048
      freeram: 1052516352
      sharedram: 3440640
      bufferram: 37695488
      totalswap: 4121948160
      freeswap: 4121948160
      pagesize: 4096
      cpus: 2
      cpus-online: 2
      ticks-per-second: 100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package stress-ng - 0.12.06-1ubuntu1

---------------
stress-ng (0.12.06-1ubuntu1) hirsute; urgency=medium

  * Quote the system-info.version value in YAML metrics (LP: #1943623)
   - upstream commit a52f236917f5 ("core-helper: Quote the
     system-info.version value in YAML metrics")

 -- Colin King <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:08:14 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for stress-ng 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 stress-ng - 0.11.07-1ubuntu1

---------------
stress-ng (0.11.07-1ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Quote the system-info.version value in YAML metrics (LP: #1943623)
   - upstream commit a52f236917f5 ("core-helper: Quote the
     system-info.version value in YAML metrics")

 -- Colin King <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:08:14 +0100