Update intrepid, jaunty and karmic to landscape-client 1.4.0

[Free Ekanayaka]

Landscape Client 1.4.0 has been released. We would like to get these changes into Karmic, Intrepid and Jaunty. The required pieces of information for a SRU follow (as laid out in the "Procedure" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates).

=== Statement explaining the impact ===

New features have been developed since the versions of Landscape Client that are currently in Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic. We would like to make sure all of our supported customers (even those on Intrepid and Jaunty and Karmic) have access to these features. The notable ones are:

1) Support for release upgrades. From the Landscape web UI, it's now possible to issue a system upgrade between to subsequent Ubuntu releases (e.g. from jaunty to karmic), which will be performed using the regular update-manager code in non-interactive mode.

2) Report Smart locking information. The client will now report the server about Smart locks set on the system, which the Landscape UI is going to display with a special icon.

3) Several bug fixes which improve the overall user experience.

For more details see Bug #456124, Bug #340843, Bug #465846, Bug #476418, Bug #369000, Bug #450629, Bug #455217, Bug #462543, Bug #463321 and Bug #488108 (all mentioned in the debian/changelog of the proposed packages).

=== How the bug has been addressed ===

We have been following the development procedure laid out in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LandscapeUpdates

=== Patches ===

The three branches for the new landscape-client intrepid, jaunty and karmic source packages are attached to this bug, and are were derived from

lp:ubuntu/intrepid/landscape-client
lp:ubuntu/jaunty/landscape-client
lp:ubuntu/karmic/landscape-client

respectively.

=== Detailed instructions how to reproduce the bug ===

N/A

=== Discussion ===

All the source packages have been subject to the QA process detailed in the LandscapeUpdates document linked above.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted landscape-client into intrepid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted landscape-client into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted landscape-client into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.0-0ubuntu0.8.10.0

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landscape-client (1.4.0-0ubuntu0.8.10.0) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #497351)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are
      available (LP: #456124)
    - Fix landscape programs wake up far too much. (LP: #340843)
    - Fix Package manager fails with 'no such table: task' (LP #465846)
    - Fix test suite leaving temporary files around (LP #476418)
    - Fix the 1hr long wait for user data to be uploaded following a
      resynchronisation (LP #369000)

  * Add support for Ubuntu release upgrades:
    - Add helper function to fetch many files at once (LP: #450629)
    - Handle release-upgrade messages in the packagemanager
      plugin (LP: #455217)
    - Add a release-upgrader task handler (LP: #462543)
    - Support upgrade-tool environment variables (LP: #463321)

  * Add initial support for Smart package locking:
    - Detect and report changes about Smart package locks (#488108)

  * Packaging fixes:
    - Turn unnecessary Pre-Depends on python-gobject into a regular Depends
    - If it's empty, remove /etc/landscape upon purge
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:05 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.0

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landscape-client (1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.0) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #497351)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are
      available (LP: #456124)
    - Fix landscape programs wake up far too much. (LP: #340843)
    - Fix Package manager fails with 'no such table: task' (LP #465846)
    - Fix test suite leaving temporary files around (LP #476418)
    - Fix the 1hr long wait for user data to be uploaded following a
      resynchronisation (LP #369000)

  * Add support for Ubuntu release upgrades:
    - Add helper function to fetch many files at once (LP: #450629)
    - Handle release-upgrade messages in the packagemanager
      plugin (LP: #455217)
    - Add a release-upgrader task handler (LP: #462543)
    - Support upgrade-tool environment variables (LP: #463321)

  * Add initial support for Smart package locking:
    - Detect and report changes about Smart package locks (#488108)

  * Packaging fixes:
    - Turn unnecessary Pre-Depends on python-gobject into a regular Depends
    - If it's empty, remove /etc/landscape upon purge
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:05 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.10.0

---------------
landscape-client (1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.10.0) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #497351)

  * Bug fixes:
    - Fix landscape daemons fail to start when too many groups are
      available (LP: #456124)
    - Fix landscape programs wake up far too much. (LP: #340843)
    - Fix Package manager fails with 'no such table: task' (LP #465846)
    - Fix test suite leaving temporary files around (LP #476418)
    - Fix the 1hr long wait for user data to be uploaded following a
      resynchronisation (LP #369000)

  * Add support for Ubuntu release upgrades:
    - Add helper function to fetch many files at once (LP: #450629)
    - Handle release-upgrade messages in the packagemanager
      plugin (LP: #455217)
    - Add a release-upgrader task handler (LP: #462543)
    - Support upgrade-tool environment variables (LP: #463321)

  * Add initial support for Smart package locking:
    - Detect and report changes about Smart package locks (#488108)

  * Packaging fixes:
    - Turn unnecessary Pre-Depends on python-gobject into a regular Depends
    - If it's empty, remove /etc/landscape upon purge
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:50:05 +0100