SRU of LXC 2.0.1 (upstream bugfix release)

[Stéphane Graber]

LXC upstream released LXC 2.0.1 as a bugfix release with following changelog:
 - apparmor: Also allow fstype=fuse for fuse filesystems
 - attach: adapt lxc-attach tests & add test for pty logging
 - attach: don't fail attach on failure to setup a SIGWINCH handler.
 - attach: fix a variety of lxc-attach pts handling issues
 - attach: switch console pty to raw mode (fixes ncurses-based programs)
 - attach: use raw settings of ssh for pty
 - bindings: fixed python-lxc reference to var before assignment in create()
 - bindings: set PyErr when Container.__init__ fails
 - cgfsng: defer to cgfs if needed subsystems are not available
 - cgfsng: don't require that systemd subsystem be mounted
 - core: Added missing type to keys in lxc_list_nicconfigs
 - core: Allow configuration file values to be quoted
 - core: log: remove duplicate definitons and bump buffer size
 - core: sync: properly fail on unexpected message sizes
 - core: Unshare netns after setting the userns mappings (fixes ownership of /proc/net)
 - core: various fixes as reported by static analysis
 - c/r: add an option to use faster inotify support in CRIU
 - c/r: rearrange things to pass struct migrate_opts all the way down
 - doc: ignore temporary files generated by doxygen
 - doc: tweak manpage generation date to be compatible with reproducible builds
 - doc: update MAINTAINERS
 - doc: update to translated manpages
 - init: add missing lsb headers to sysvinit scripts
 - init: don't make sysv init scripts dependant on distribution specifics
 - init: drop obsolete syslog.target from lxc.service.in
 - lxc-attach: add logging option to manpage
 - lxc-checkconfig: better render when stdout isn't a terminal
 - lxc-create: fix -B best option
 - lxc-destroy: avoid double print
 - lxc-ls: use fewer syscalls when doing ipc
 - templates: Add apt-transport-https to minbase variant of Ubuntu template
 - templates: fix a typo in the capabilities name for Gentoo (sys_resource)
 - templates: logic fix in the Centos template for RHEL7+ support
 - templates: tweak Alpine DHCP configuration to send its hostname
 - templates: tweak to network configuration of the Oracle template

Just like Ubuntu itself, upstream releases long term support releases, as is 2.0 and then periodic point releases including all the accumulated bugfixes.

Only the latest upstream release gets full support from the upstream developers, everyone else is expected to first update to it before receiving any kind of support.

This bugfix release has already been uploaded to Yakkety and automatically backported in the upstream PPAs for all Ubuntu releases. So far without any reported regression.

This should qualify under the minor upstream bugfix release allowance of the SRU policy, letting us SRU this without paperwork for every single change included in this upstream release.

Once the SRU hits -updates, we will be backporting this to trusty-backports as well, making sure we have the same version everywhere.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Uploaded to the queue.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/2.0.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

I've been running this in production over the past few days without seeing any problem (running a bit under 12000 containers).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 2.0.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

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lxc (2.0.1-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release (2.0.1) (LP: #1582887)
    - apparmor: Also allow fstype=fuse for fuse filesystems
    - attach: adapt lxc-attach tests & add test for pty logging
    - attach: don't fail attach on failure to setup a SIGWINCH handler.
    - attach: fix a variety of lxc-attach pts handling issues
    - attach: switch console pty to raw mode (fixes ncurses-based programs)
    - attach: use raw settings of ssh for pty
    - bindings: fixed python-lxc reference to var before assignment in create()
    - bindings: set PyErr when Container.init fails
    - cgfsng: defer to cgfs if needed subsystems are not available
    - cgfsng: don't require that systemd subsystem be mounted
    - core: Added missing type to keys in lxc_list_nicconfigs
    - core: Allow configuration file values to be quoted
    - core: log: remove duplicate definitons and bump buffer size
    - core: sync: properly fail on unexpected message sizes
    - core: Unshare netns after setting the userns mappings
      (fixes ownership of /proc/net)
    - core: various fixes as reported by static analysis
    - c/r: add an option to use faster inotify support in CRIU
    - c/r: rearrange things to pass struct migrate_opts all the way down
    - doc: ignore temporary files generated by doxygen
    - doc: tweak manpage generation date to be compatible with
      reproducible builds
    - doc: update MAINTAINERS
    - doc: update to translated manpages
    - init: add missing lsb headers to sysvinit scripts
    - init: don't make sysv init scripts dependant on distribution specifics
    - init: drop obsolete syslog.target from lxc.service.in
    - lxc-attach: add logging option to manpage
    - lxc-checkconfig: better render when stdout isn't a terminal
    - lxc-create: fix -B best option
    - lxc-destroy: avoid double print
    - lxc-ls: use fewer syscalls when doing ipc
    - templates: Add apt-transport-https to minbase variant of Ubuntu template
    - templates: fix a typo in the capabilities name for Gentoo (sys_resource)
    - templates: logic fix in the Centos template for RHEL7+ support
    - templates: tweak Alpine DHCP configuration to send its hostname
    - templates: tweak to network configuration of the Oracle template

 -- Stéphane Graber <email address hidden> Tue, 17 May 2016 17:19:58 -0400

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

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