Ubuntu Server development summary – 05 June 2018
Joshua Powers
on 5 June 2018
Tags: Server , Ubuntu Server , weekly
The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.
cloud-init
- Add openSUSE support for development tooling to spin up a test container
- Upload cloud-init to Cosmic logfiles represent full packaged version of cloud-init instead of just 18.2
- pyflakes: fix unused variable references identified by pyflakes 2.0.0
- Fix ssh-import-id without HOME (LP: #1570997)
- util: add get_linux_distro function to replace platform.dist (Robert Schweikert) (LP: #1745235)
Contact the Ubuntu Server team
- Chat on #ubuntu-server on Freenode
- Email the ubuntu-server mailing list
Bug Work and Triage
- 290 in the backlog
- 143 bugs reviewed since the last report
- Notes on daily bug triage
Ubuntu Server Packages
Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases. Current status of the Debian to Ubuntu merges is tracked on the Merge-o-Matic page. For a full list of recent merges with change logs please see the Ubuntu Server report.
Uploads Released to the Supported Releases
Total: 6
chrony, bionic, 3.2-4ubuntu4.1, paelzer
haproxy, bionic, 1.8.8-1ubuntu0.1, leosilvab
tomcat7, trusty, 7.0.52-1ubuntu0.14, mdeslaur
tomcat8, bionic, 8.5.30-1ubuntu1.2, mdeslaur
tomcat8, artful, 8.5.21-1ubuntu1.1, mdeslaur
tomcat8, xenial, 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.6, mdeslaur
Uploads to the Development Release
Total: 15
cloud-init, 18.2-64-gbbcc5e82-0ubuntu1, chad.smith
drbd-utils, 8.9.10-2ubuntu1, ddstreet
ebtables, 2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu4, ddstreet
exim4, 4.91-4ubuntu1, paelzer
libsdl1.2, 1.2.15+dfsg2-1~build1, costamagnagianfranco
nbd, 1:3.17-2ubuntu1, cascardo
nut, 2.7.4-7ubuntu1, paelzer
pollinate, 4.33-0ubuntu1, smoser
quota, 4.04-2ubuntu1, paelzer
resource-agents, 1:4.1.1-2, debian-ha-maintainers
strongswan, 5.6.2-2ubuntu1, paelzer
tgt, 1:1.0.73-1ubuntu1, paelzer
tomcat8, 8.5.30-1ubuntu3, mdeslaur
unbound, 1.7.1-1, pkg-dns-devel
vlan, 1.9-3.3ubuntu1, slashd

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