This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 0.7.8-1-g3705bb5-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

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cloud-init (0.7.8-1-g3705bb5-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 0.7.8.
  * New upstream snapshot.
    - systemd: put cloud-init.target After multi-user.target (LP: #1623868)

cloud-init (0.7.7-31-g65ace7b-0ubuntu1~16.04.2) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: add Breaks of older versions of walinuxagent (LP: #1623570)

cloud-init (0.7.7-31-g65ace7b-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: fix missing dependency on python3-serial,
    and make SmartOS datasource work.
  * debian/cloud-init.templates fix capitalisation in template so
    dpkg-reconfigure works to select OpenStack. (LP: #1575727)
  * d/README.source, d/control, d/new-upstream-snapshot, d/rules: sync
    with yakkety for changes due to move to git.
  * d/rules: change PYVER=python3 to PYVER=3 to adjust to upstream change.
  * debian/rules, debian/cloud-init.install: remove install file
    to ensure expected files are collected into cloud-init deb.
    (LP: #1615745)
  * debian/dirs: remove obsolete / unused file.
  * upstream move from bzr to git.
  * New upstream snapshot.
    - Allow link type of null in network_data.json [Jon Grimm] (LP: #1621968)
    - DataSourceOVF: fix user-data as base64 with python3 (LP: #1619394)
    - remove obsolete .bzrignore
    - systemd: Better support package and upgrade. (LP: #1576692, #1621336)
    - tests: cleanup tempdirs in apt_source tests
    - apt config conversion: treat empty string as not provided. (LP: #1621180)
    - Fix typo in default keys for phone_home [Roland Sommer] (LP: #1607810)
    - salt minion: update default pki directory for newer salt minion.
      (LP: #1609899)
    - bddeb: add --release flag to specify the release in changelog.
    - apt-config: allow both old and new format to be present.
      [Christian Ehrhardt] (LP: #1616831)
    - python2.6: fix dict comprehension usage in _lsb_release. [Joshua Harlow]
    - Add a module that can configure spacewalk. [Joshua Harlow]
    - add install option for openrc [Matthew Thode]
    - Generate a dummy bond name for OpenStack (LP: #1605749)
    - network: fix get_interface_mac for bond slave, read_sys_net for ENOTDIR
    - azure dhclient-hook cleanups
    - Minor cleanups to atomic_helper and add unit tests.
    - Fix Gentoo net config generation [Matthew Thode]
    - distros: fix get_primary_arch method use of os.uname [Andrew Jorgensen]
    - Apt: add new apt configuration format [Christian Ehrhardt]
    - Get Azure endpoint server from DHCP client [Brent Baude]
    - DigitalOcean: use the v1.json endpoint [Ben Howard]
    - MAAS: add vendor-data support (LP: #1612313)
    - Upgrade to a configobj package new enough to work [Joshua Harlow]
    - ConfigDrive: recognize 'tap' as a link type. (LP: #1610784)
    - NoCloud: fix bug providing network-interfaces via meta-data.
      (LP: 1577982)
    - Add distro tags on config modules that should have it [Joshua Harlow]
    - ChangeLog: update changelog for previous commit.
    - add ntp config module [Ryan Harper]
    - SmartOS: more improvements for network configuration
    - tools/read-version: update to address change in version
    - make-tarball: older versions of git with --format=tar.
    - read-version: do not attempt git-describe if no git.
    - Newer requests have strong type validation [Joshua Harlow]
    - For upstream snapshot versions do not modify git-describe output.
    - adjust signal_handler for version changes.
    - revert unintended change to ubuntu sources list
    - drop modification of version during make-tarball, tools changes.
    - adjust tools and version information.
    - Update build tools to work with git [Lars Kellogg-Stedman]
    - fix pep8 errors in mcollective unit tests
    - mcollective: add tests, cleanups and bug fix when no config in /etc.

 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden>  Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:57:27 -0400