[BPO] Backport cockpit-machines to stable releases

[Martin Pitt]

[Impact]

Four years ago I got a backports approval for the "cockpit" source package in bug #1686022. A while ago, the "Machines" page was split out into its own separate https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/ project, mostly to make development easier and faster.

Just like cockpit, c-machines is a rather dynamic project which keeps growing features and improvements fairly quickly. It has quite a lot of users/bug reports on Ubuntu [1], running the latest version helps to address issues like [2], and we also regularly get requests for Debian backports [3] (I upload backports to Debian).

[Testing]

Upstream has a very comprehensive unit and integration test suite; the latter runs on lots of OSes, amongst them are Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, Debian stable and testing. As such *every* change in upstream main gets verified that it builds, installs, and correctly works on all OSes.

[Scope]

 * List the Ubuntu release you will backport from, and the specific package version.

New upstream releases happen every two weeks. I usually upload them to Debian unstable, let them propagate to Ubuntu devel-proposed and then devel, and then backport them.

 * List the Ubuntu release(s) you will backport to.

Latest LTS and latest stable.

[Other Info]

[1] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/issues?q=is%3Aissue+ubuntu
[2] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines/issues/327
[3] https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/16438

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Uploaded to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/impish/+queue?queue_state=1 and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+queue?queue_state=1

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

Hi @pitti!

I just rejected the f/i uploads, but the only issue I saw was the version suffix:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports#Preparing_the_Backported_Package

Can you reupload with the ~bpo suffix instead? Otherwise they seem fine. Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks Dan! Reuploaded with s/ubuntu/bpo/. So far I used the "backportpackage" script from ubuntu-dev-tools (0.186), can this be fixed there then, please?

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

approved for f/i, thanks!

> So far I used the "backportpackage" script from ubuntu-dev-tools (0.186), can this be fixed there then, please?

yep, this is definitely on our todo list, just have not got to it yet.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports/Agenda