[Bug 1785499] Re: Make squashfs-tools in Xenial in sync with Bionic and Cosmic

[Adam Conrad]

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted squashfs-tools into xenial-proposed. The package will build now
and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/squashfs-
tools/1:4.3-3ubuntu2.16.04.3 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 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!

** Changed in: squashfs-tools (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-xenial

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Title:
  Make squashfs-tools in Xenial in sync with Bionic and Cosmic

Status in squashfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in squashfs-tools source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  squashfs-tools upstream hasn't changed in a while but a number of
  bugfixes are applied through packaging in Debian and Ubuntu.

  The bionic and cosmic versions right now are identical but xenial is
  missing a few fixes which is a problem for the LXD snap among other
  things.

  Looking at debian/series/patches, the fixes currently missing in the xenial version are:
   - 0007-fix-2GB-limit-in-mksquashfs.patch
   - 0008-preserve_file_capabilities.patch

  I'll attach test cases for both of those below and then will prepare
  an SRU that effectively makes the source package identical to what we
  have in bionic, minus the different changelog.

  This should be pretty safe considering both Ubuntu and Debian have
  been shipping those two patches for a while and the fs caps one is
  going to be pretty important moving forward as we're discussing having
  Ubuntu ship with fscaps by default.

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