[Bug 1839500] Re: Add a future-proof provides btrfs-progs name for ease of usability

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

# apt install btrfs-progs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'btrfs-tools' instead of 'btrfs-progs'
The following additional packages will be installed:
  liblzo2-2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  btrfs-tools liblzo2-2
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
Need to get 570 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3910 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 liblzo2-2 amd64 2.08-1.2 [48.7 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 btrfs-tools amd64 4.4-1ubuntu1.1 [521 kB]
Fetched 570 kB in 0s (907 kB/s)     
Selecting previously unselected package liblzo2-2:amd64.
(Reading database ... 12323 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../liblzo2-2_2.08-1.2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking liblzo2-2:amd64 (2.08-1.2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package btrfs-tools.
Preparing to unpack .../btrfs-tools_4.4-1ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking btrfs-tools (4.4-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up liblzo2-2:amd64 (2.08-1.2) ...
Setting up btrfs-tools (4.4-1ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

All is good!

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

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Title:
  Add a future-proof provides btrfs-progs name for ease of usability

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

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Upstream, other distributions, and Ubuntu Bionic+ use btrfs-progs
  name for this package

   * For historical reasons, this package was called btrfs-tools

   * To ease usability and automation it would be nice if the future-
  proof name would be available on older releases as a Provides:

  [Test Case]

   * $ apt install btrfs-progs

     Should install btrfs-tools package on xenial, and have btrfs

  [Regression Potential]

   * We are rebuilding the btrfs package, and adding extra metadata
  without any other code changes. So the only risks there are, are from
  doing a no-change rebuild of the package.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Examples of automation that install btrfs:
     - ansible playbooks
     - lxd
     - curtin
     - cloud-init
     - juju
     - interactive sysadmins

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