[SRU] Backport GenericIPAddressfield from 1.4

[Julian Edwards]

The GenericIPAddress field from 1.4 is required in 1.3 as a pre-requisite to a maas backport. This field stores any IP address, v4 or v6.

[Impact]
This is functionality required as part of the MAAS Next Steps blueprint [1], in order to be able to SRU various new fixes to MAAS in precise. This functionality adds a new field that is required for MAAS, in order to be able to store IPv4 and IPv6.

[Test Case]
This has been tested against MAAS. To test this we simply need to branch the MAAS branch which is being prepared for the SRU, and make sure all tests pass. Tests will fail when this SRU has not being installed. Test will pass when this feature is backported.

1. bzr branch lp:~maas-maintainers/maas/1.2 maas-sru
2. cd maas-sru
3. make test

[Regression Potential]
Minimal. This is functionality that produces minimal impact to django. On the other hand, the maas-maintainers team has committed to address any related issues and maintain it from this point forward.

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Hello Julian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted into quantal-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours 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 change the bug tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not, 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!

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update 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 regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python-django - 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.5

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python-django (1.3.1-4ubuntu1.5) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Julian Edwards ]
  * debian/patches:
    - genericipaddressfield.diff: Backport GenericIPAddressField
      from 1.4 (LP: #1081391)
    - prefetch_related.diff: Backport prefetch_related from 1.4 (LP: #1081388)
    - bug15496-base64-multipart-fix.diff: Include fix for upstream bug #15496
      which makes 'Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64: work for multipart
      messages. (LP: #1081392)
 -- Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:41 -0500

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I've just removed this update from precise-updates. Unfortunately it wasn't until after I copied it over that I noticed that this is not an appropriate change for an SRU and it's not been reviewed by the SRU team.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Since this was not reviewed by the SRU team, I've removed the SRU. Additionally, since feature additions are not permitted in SRUs by the normal policy, a change like this should be discussed in advance, probably with the tech board, before it is resubmitted.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

"Adds a new field that is required for MAAS, in order to be able to store IPv4 and IPv6." is not an SRU worthy fix. The fact that someone at Canonical wants it done doesn't change that. Please do not move this from invalid again without discussion.

python-django is widely used for more than MAAS. "Works with MAAS" is nowhere near sufficient validation that messing with a feature backport post-release is safe for Ubuntu users.