[SRU] ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.2 -> 27.11.3) Xenial, Bionic, Focal, Jammy

[Grant Orndorff]

[Impact]

This release includes both bug-fixes and new features and we would like to make sure all of our supported customers have access to these
improvements. The notable ones are:

   * Changing the Ubuntu Pro beta banner in apt output to a generic "APT
     news" announcement banner
   * "APT news" will only appear when using `apt` (so it won't appear when
     using `apt-get`)
   * Adding a new command to permanently disable current and future "APT
     news": `pro config set apt_news=false`

See the changelog entry below for a full list of changes and bugfixes.

[Test Case]

The following development and SRU process will be followed: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdvantageToolsUpdates

The ubuntu-advantage-tools team will be in charge of attaching the artifacts and console output of the appropriate run to the bug. ubuntu-advantage-tools team members will not mark ‘verification-done’ until this has happened.

[Regression Potential]

If anyone's scripts have changed in the past couple weeks to expect the Ubuntu Pro banner in the current location, they may break again.

Touching postinst is always a relatively risky change. In this case it is necessary to migrate the old banner to the new banner and to fix some file permissions. If we made a mistake somewhere, it could cause failures during an apt upgrade to this version.

[Discussion]

Unfortunately, this will still output APT news when -q/-qq/-qqq is passed to apt. This is because apt hooks aren't aware of what options are set. The apt bug for this is here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1992472

Because we are now limiting APT news to only the `apt` binary, `apt-get` should be safe to use without worrying about extra messages.

APT news lines will always begin with "#" so it should hopefully be straightforward to parse out if necessary.

[Changelog]

  - d/postinst: remove the Ubuntu Pro beta apt message and set up the
    configurable flag for "APT news" instead
  - collect-logs: do not fail if a file cannot be read (LP: #1991858)
  - config: add a flag to disable "APT news" (LP: 1992026)
  - messaging: add announcement of "APT news" to apt output
  - messaging: only show "APT news" when using apt binary (GH: #2288)
  - version: fix permissions on tmp version file (GH: #2294)

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Grant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-advantage-tools into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/27.11.3~22.04.1 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, 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.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Grant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-advantage-tools into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/27.11.3~20.04.1 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, 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.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Grant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-advantage-tools into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/27.11.3~18.04.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package 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.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Grant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-advantage-tools into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/27.11.3~16.04.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. 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.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~18.04.1) for bionic have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

ubuntu-advantage-tools/unknown (arm64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/bionic/update_excuses.html#ubuntu-advantage-tools

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Grant, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubuntu-advantage-tools into kinetic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/27.11.3~22.10.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-kinetic to verification-done-kinetic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-kinetic. 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.

[Grant Orndorff (orndorffgrant)]

We have run the full ubuntu-advantage-tools integration test suite against the version in -proposed. The results are attached. All tests passed.

You can verify the correct version was used by checking the output of the first test in each file, which prints the version number.

We also ran additional scripts checking the apport bug fix and the apt_news migration in this version. The output of these are included here as well.

I am marking the verification done for this SRU.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-advantage-tools - 27.11.3~22.10.1

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ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~22.10.1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 27.11.3: (LP: #1993006)
    - d/postinst: remove the Ubuntu Pro beta apt message and set up the
      configurable flag for "APT news" instead
    - collect-logs: do not fail if a file cannot be read (LP: #1991858)
    - config: add a flag to disable "APT news" (LP: 1992026)
    - messaging: add announcement of "APT news" to apt output
    - messaging: only show "APT news" when using apt binary (GH: #2288)
    - version: use /run instead of /tmp for version file (GH: #2294)

 -- Grant Orndorff <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:55:27 -0400

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubuntu-advantage-tools has completed successfully and the package is now being 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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-advantage-tools - 27.11.3~22.04.1

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ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Backport new upstream release: (LP: #1993006) to jammy

 -- Grant Orndorff <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:46:23 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-advantage-tools - 27.11.3~20.04.1

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ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Backport new upstream release: (LP: #1993006) to focal

 -- Grant Orndorff <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:46:20 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-advantage-tools - 27.11.3~18.04.1

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ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Backport new upstream release: (LP: #1993006) to bionic

 -- Grant Orndorff <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:46:17 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-advantage-tools - 27.11.3~16.04.1

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ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Backport new upstream release: (LP: #1993006) to xenial

 -- Grant Orndorff <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:46:13 -0400

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-advantage-tools - 27.11.3~22.10.1

---------------
ubuntu-advantage-tools (27.11.3~22.10.1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 27.11.3: (LP: #1993006)
    - d/postinst: remove the Ubuntu Pro beta apt message and set up the
      configurable flag for "APT news" instead
    - collect-logs: do not fail if a file cannot be read (LP: #1991858)
    - config: add a flag to disable "APT news" (LP: 1992026)
    - messaging: add announcement of "APT news" to apt output
    - messaging: only show "APT news" when using apt binary (GH: #2288)
    - version: use /run instead of /tmp for version file (GH: #2294)

 -- Grant Orndorff <email address hidden> Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:55:27 -0400