dm-writeboost 2.2.8-1ubuntu2 ADT test failure with linux 4.17.0-1.2+signed1

[Seth Forshee]

SRU Request:

[Impact]
dm-writeboost-dkms won't build for 4.17 and later kernels. That includes hwe-edge/4.18 for bionic.

[Test case]
Test that the resulting dkms builds for 4.18 and 4.15 kernels.

[Regression potential]
The resulting dkms could fail to build for older kernels. Tested for 4.15.

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Testing failed on:
    amd64: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-cosmic-canonical-kernel-team-bootstrap/cosmic/amd64/d/dm-writeboost/20180524_151147_737ef@/log.gz
    ppc64el: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-cosmic-canonical-kernel-team-bootstrap/cosmic/ppc64el/d/dm-writeboost/20180524_151354_737ef@/log.gz

[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

Attaching debdiff to fix dkms build errors with 4.17.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dm-writeboost - 2.2.8-1ubuntu3

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dm-writeboost (2.2.8-1ubuntu3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/buildfix-4.17.patch
    - Update for changes to struct target_type.message prototype in
      Linux 4.17. (LP: #1773362)

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Fri, 25 May 2018 09:30:11 -0500

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Seth, or anyone else affected,

Accepted dm-writeboost into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dm-writeboost/2.2.8-1ubuntu3~18.04.1 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 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-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo)]

(bionic-amd64)root@calabresa:/home/cascardo/ubuntu/oss4# apt-cache policy dm-writeboost-dkms
dm-writeboost-dkms:
  Installed: 2.2.8-1ubuntu3~18.04.1
  Candidate: 2.2.8-1ubuntu3~18.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.8-1ubuntu3~18.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.2.8-1ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
(bionic-amd64)root@calabresa:/home/cascardo/ubuntu/oss4# ls /lib/modules/4.18.0-11-generic/updates/dkms/dm*
/lib/modules/4.18.0-11-generic/updates/dkms/dm-writeboost.ko

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package dm-writeboost - 2.2.8-1ubuntu3~18.04.1

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dm-writeboost (2.2.8-1ubuntu3~18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/buildfix-4.17.patch
    - Update for changes to struct target_type.message prototype in
      Linux 4.17. (LP: #1773362)

 -- Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:45:31 -0200

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for dm-writeboost 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.