[Bug 1905986] Re: Don't provide transitional package for python3-google-compute-engine, add Breaks: in google-guest-agent instead
Balint Reczey
1905986 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Nov 27 21:04:10 UTC 2020
** Description changed:
[Impact]
* gce-compute-image-packages has been split to multiple source packages and google-guest-agent (written in Go) replaced the services originally written in Python. The upgrade to gce-compute-image-packages compatible with google-guest-agent replaced the Python modules (python3-google-compute-engine) with an empty transitional package. The removal of the modules could break local software relying on those modules.
* The fix is not providing the empty python3-google-compute-engine transitional package, but adding Breaks: to google-guest-agent to force the removal of it. Since removals are not performed automatically by apt-get upgrade (not unattended-upgrades) the administrator needs to approve removal.
[Test Case]
* Set up a system with the unfixed version of the packages, including python3-google-compute-engine installed.
* Upgrade to the new set of packages:
apt-get upgrade
* Observe that the gce-compute-image-packages is kept back
* Upgrade gce-compute-image-package manually:
apt install gce-compute-image-package
* This should succeed, removing python3-google-compute-engine
Dist-upgrade from Trusty:
TODO
[Where problems could occur]
- * The packages may become uninstallable upon upgrade or dist-upgrade. Testing was performed to avoid such regressions.
- Since the aim of this fix is preventing accidental upgrades should a security update of the affected packages be released the fix will prevent automatic application of this updated. In such case the the transitional package can be reintroduced and the Breaks: can be converted to a versioned Breaks: on the non-transitional package versions.
+ * The packages may become uninstallable upon upgrade or dist-upgrade.
+ Testing was performed to avoid such regressions.
+
+ * Since the aim of this fix is preventing accidental upgrades should a
+ security update of the affected packages be released the fix will
+ prevent automatic application of this updated. In such case the the
+ transitional package can be reintroduced and the Breaks: can be
+ converted to a versioned Breaks: on the non-transitional package
+ versions.
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Title:
Don't provide transitional package for python3-google-compute-engine,
add Breaks: in google-guest-agent instead
Status in gce-compute-image-packages package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
[Impact]
* gce-compute-image-packages has been split to multiple source packages and google-guest-agent (written in Go) replaced the services originally written in Python. The upgrade to gce-compute-image-packages compatible with google-guest-agent replaced the Python modules (python3-google-compute-engine) with an empty transitional package. The removal of the modules could break local software relying on those modules.
* The fix is not providing the empty python3-google-compute-engine transitional package, but adding Breaks: to google-guest-agent to force the removal of it. Since removals are not performed automatically by apt-get upgrade (not unattended-upgrades) the administrator needs to approve removal.
[Test Case]
* Set up a system with the unfixed version of the packages, including python3-google-compute-engine installed.
* Upgrade to the new set of packages:
apt-get upgrade
* Observe that the gce-compute-image-packages is kept back
* Upgrade gce-compute-image-package manually:
apt install gce-compute-image-package
* This should succeed, removing python3-google-compute-engine
Dist-upgrade from Trusty:
TODO
[Where problems could occur]
* The packages may become uninstallable upon upgrade or dist-upgrade.
Testing was performed to avoid such regressions.
* Since the aim of this fix is preventing accidental upgrades should
a security update of the affected packages be released the fix will
prevent automatic application of this updated. In such case the the
transitional package can be reintroduced and the Breaks: can be
converted to a versioned Breaks: on the non-transitional package
versions.
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