[SRU] Backport label-ft plugin to 22.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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plymouth (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Alfonso Sanchez-Beato | ||
Jammy |
Incomplete
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
* This is a request to backport changes in kinetic plymouth package
to 0.9.5+git202110
plugin named label-ft, which was introduced to replace the label
plugin in Ubuntu Core systems. The difference with the label plugin
is that it pulls much less dependencies (LP: #1976352), which allows
a much smaller initramfs. This change should not affect classic systems.
[Test Plan]
* The test plan consists on creating a UC image using this package and make sure that label.so and cairo/pango dependencies are not pulled, while we still have a splash screen.
* For classic, the test plan is to refresh plymouth and make sure that
it still uses label.so and its dependencies, and still the splash
works.
[Where problems could occur]
* The change introduces a new package named plymouth-label-ft with the label-ft.so plugin. This package will not be installed on classic by default, and it is the main change proposed. The rest of the plymouth code changes use label-ft.so as a fallback if label.so is not present. This is just a few lines of code, and still uses label.so by default, so the potential risk of breaking the splash should be small. If something goes wrong, we could be without splash and without a user friendly way of unlocking disks if using FDE.
[Other Info]
* Change should be relevant for UC only
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
assignee: | nobody → Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato) |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu Jammy): | |
status: | In Progress → Incomplete |
Jammy package uploaded to PPA: https:/ /launchpad. net/~alfonsosan chezbeato/ +archive/ ubuntu/ plymouth