Notes on the apache-deps pending sru autopkgtest failures:

For trusty, the 'puppet' autopkgtest is failing:
http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/p/puppet/trusty/amd64

the failure for this sru is here:
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-trusty/trusty/amd64/p/puppet/20180405_220028_67950@/log.gz

it appears to have been failing since 2016, however:
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-trusty/trusty/amd64/p/puppet/20160713_165538@/log.gz

so it's not related to this sru and can be ignored.


For xenial, the gvfs (s390x) autopkgtest fails, but the log indicates it's a testbed setup script failure - so almost certainly some transient issue with the s390x autopkgtest setup, not anything caused by this sru.
https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-xenial/xenial/s390x/g/gvfs/20180405_214901_9f312@/log.gz

Additionally, the gvfs autopkgtest has been failing for over a month, so it seems safe to ignore its failures w.r.t this sru:
http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/g/gvfs/xenial/s390x

Also for xenial, libapache2-mod-perl2 autopkgtest is failing.  This started failing with the last version of apache, however before that this autopkgtest wasn't run since 2016 - so it's very likely something else introduced this test failure, since the last xenial apache2 version was removed from -proposed and its code is not included in this upload, but the libapache2-mod-perl2 autopkgtest failure is the same.  I believe this can be ignored as unrelated to this sru.
http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/lib/libapache2-mod-perl2/xenial/amd64


For artful, resource-agent (s390x) autopkgtest fails:
http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/c/cacti/artful/amd64

however the specific failing tests are first 'IPaddr2' which fails with what looks like a broken test (and certainly seems unrelated to apache2):
autopkgtest [20:43:48]: test IPaddr2: [-----------------------
sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command
autopkgtest [20:43:48]: test IPaddr2: -----------------------]
autopkgtest [20:43:49]: test IPaddr2:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
IPaddr2              FAIL non-zero exit status 1
autopkgtest [20:43:49]: test IPaddr2:  - - - - - - - - - - stderr - - - - - - - - - -
sed: -e expression #1, char 11: unterminated `s' command

and the tests 'command4' and 'command6' which are both mysql tests, not for apache2.  So appear unrelated to this.

Also for artful, the cacti autopkgtest fails:
http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/c/cacti/artful/amd64

This failure is during a test that has something to do with apache2, so possibly is related:
autopkgtest [20:31:42]: test check-all-pages: [-----------------------
--2018-04-05 20:31:42--  http://localhost/cacti/index.php
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 134 [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/tmp.JiG38g3XKE’

     0K                                                       100% 24.8M=0s

2018-04-05 20:31:43 (24.8 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/tmp.JiG38g3XKE’ saved [134/134]

--2018-04-05 20:31:43--  http://localhost/cacti/index.php
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 134 [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/tmp.ZWxUDKERUh’

     0K                                                       100% 27.8M=0s

2018-04-05 20:31:44 (27.8 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/tmp.ZWxUDKERUh’ saved [134/134]

--2018-04-05 20:31:44--  http://localhost/cacti/index.php
Resolving localhost (localhost)... 127.0.0.1
Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 134 [text/html]
Saving to: ‘localhost/cacti/index.php’

     0K                                                       100% 26.2M=0s

2018-04-05 20:31:45 (26.2 MB/s) - ‘localhost/cacti/index.php’ saved [134/134]

FINISHED --2018-04-05 20:31:45--
Total wall clock time: 0.8s
Downloaded: 1 files, 134 in 0s (26.2 MB/s)
localhost/cacti/graphs.php not found
Copying /var/log/cacti/cacti.log to artifacts
Copying /var/log/apache2/access.log to artifacts
Copying /var/log/apache2/error.log to artifacts
autopkgtest [20:31:45]: test check-all-pages: -----------------------]
autopkgtest [20:31:45]: test check-all-pages:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
check-all-pages      FAIL non-zero exit status 179


I'll look a bit more that this artful cacti autopkgtest to determine if it is caused by this sru or not.  However, as @inaddy's last comment indicates the apache2 package itself is verified and i'll mark it as such for each release.