SRU CRIU 2.6 to xenial

[Stéphane Graber]

We're going to need CRIU 2.6 in Xenial due to both feature backports (apparmor stacking) from Yakkety to Xenial and because of the HWE 4.8 kernel.

CRIU is pretty closely tied to the current kernel and it was discussed back in the 16.04 cycle with the SRU team that we'd be fine pushing new versions of it.

CRIU is used from the command line and its options are backward compatible. LXD is the main user in Ubuntu 16.04 and works fine with CRIU 2.0 and 2.6 as has been tested by a lot of our users.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted criu into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/criu/2.6-1ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1 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 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, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted criu into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/criu/2.6-1ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.2 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, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

I did some basic testing on this and it works fine with the usual set of live snapshot, stateful stop and live migration.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package criu - 2.6-1ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.2

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criu (2.6-1ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Drop versioned build-dep on debhelper 10.
    Couldn't find a reason for the >= 10 requirement and prevents
    building on 16.04.

criu (2.6-1ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * SRU of current CRIU 2.6 to Xenial. (LP: #1634245)
    This is needed for 4.8 kernel support as well as to deal with
    AppArmor profile stacking.

 -- Stéphane Graber <email address hidden> Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:55:26 -0500

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for criu has completed successfully and the package has now been 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.