Please update the agent to upstream tag 20240307.00

[Chloé Smith]

=== SRU ===

Following on from previous similar package update requests @ LP: #2064580, LP: #2020762, LP: #1996735, LP: #1938553 and LP: #1911689 this bug is a request to update `gce-compute-image-packages` to the new upstream version `20240307.00` @ https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-configs/releases/tag/20240307.00

This package has an SRU exception @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#gce-compute-image-packages including an ageing exception detailed @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates

[Impact]

This package is provided by Google for installation within guests that run on Google Compute Engine. It is part of a collection of tools and daemons, that ensure that the Ubuntu images published to GCE run properly on their platform.

Cloud platforms evolve at a rate that can't be handled in six-month increments, and they will often develop features that they would like to be available to customers who don't want to upgrade from earlier Ubuntu releases. As such, updating this package to more recent upstream releases is required within all Ubuntu releases, so they continue to function properly in their environment.

[Test Case]

When a new version of this package is uploaded to -proposed, the following will be done:

 * an image based on -proposed will be built for GCE and published to the ubuntu-os-cloud-devel project
 * the GCE team will be asked to validate that the new package addresses the issues it is expected to address, and that the image passes their internal image validation.

If all the testing indicates that the image containing the new package is acceptable, verification will be considered to be done.

[Vendored Dependency]

There a no new vendor dependencies needed (in any of the in-life suites)

[Where Problems Could Occur]

There are many upstream changes in `20230808.00-0ubuntu2` vs. `20240307.00-0ubuntu1`; however between the guest-test-infra suite [0] (which is run for validation by CPC _and_ Google) and CPC's own internal test harness (CTF) there is confidence that most if not all "edge cases" and/or obvious regressions concerns can be dismissed before the new version lands in `-updates`

[Other Information]

This bug is used for tracking of releasing the new upstream version for all supported series, as per the approved policy mentioned in the following MRE:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates

The updated package is not built for armhf and riscv64 due to upstream regressions, but the package is not used on those architectures anyways thus please release the SRU without the armhf and risc64 binaries.

The package does not build for powerpc on Xenial, but this is also fine as it is not used on powerpc either.

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-test-infra

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gce-compute-image-packages - 20240307.00-0ubuntu1

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gce-compute-image-packages (20240307.00-0ubuntu1) oracular; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 20240307.00. (LP: #2066314)

 -- Chloé 'kajiya' Smith <email address hidden> Tue, 21 May 2024 14:03:23 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Chloé, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gce-compute-image-packages into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gce-compute-image-packages/20240307.00-0ubuntu1~24.04.0 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. 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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Chloé, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gce-compute-image-packages into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gce-compute-image-packages/20240307.00-0ubuntu1~23.10.0 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. 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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Chloé, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gce-compute-image-packages into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gce-compute-image-packages/20240307.00-0ubuntu1~22.04.0 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. 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.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Chloé, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gce-compute-image-packages into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gce-compute-image-packages/20240307.00-0ubuntu1~20.04.0 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. 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.