Ubuntu Server development summary – 05 June 2018

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