policy.yaml should be installed instead of policy.json

[Takashi Kajinami]

Because json format of policy file was deprecated, Octavia changed the default policy file to policy.yaml in version 8.0.0.

https://github.com/openstack/octavia/commit/c5e59b5e9ef088de940deacac7d936573cb211cd

However the octavia-common package still installs policy.json, which is no longer used by the octavia processes.

The issue was initially found in octavia-common 1:13.0.0-0ubuntu1~cloud0 from UCA Bobcat.
However it seems the same problem exists in older versions, at least 1:10.0.0-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu Jammy according to [1].

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/all/octavia-common/filelist

[Takashi Kajinami (kajinamit)]

While checking the current code for Jammy I noticed the postrm script has

rm -f /etc/octavia/vitrage.conf

but I don' know what this is... just leaving a note in case anyone else knows if this should be removed.

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Hi Takashi,

Thanks for reporting this. I will likely just fix this in Caracal+ as this is more cleanup than anything else. I plan to drop installation of /etc/octavia/policy* in favor of policy-in-code but will still generate the sample policy.yaml for /usr/share/octavia-common/policy.yaml.

Corey

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package octavia - 1:13.0.0+git2024011917.5750e451-0ubuntu1

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octavia (1:13.0.0+git2024011917.5750e451-0ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot for OpenStack Caracal.
  * d/p/has-calls.patch: Fix has_calls -> assert_has_calls in unit
    tests.

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