I'm collecting the fixes in Bionic's u-u for Xenial and it is close to be ready for the full backport, but fixing LP: #178116 (or fixing all cases where python-apt losses the lock) is a prerequisite for the backport if we want to avoid an increased crash rate on Xenial.
I'm collecting the fixes in Bionic's u-u for Xenial and it is close to be ready for the full backport, but fixing LP: #178116 (or fixing all cases where python-apt losses the lock) is a prerequisite for the backport if we want to avoid an increased crash rate on Xenial.