[Bug 2106195] Please test proposed package

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hello Chloé, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gce-compute-image-packages into focal-proposed. The package
will build now and be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gce-compute-image-
packages/20250328.00-0ubuntu2~20.04.0 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, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. 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 for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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Title:
  [SRU] [FFe] Please update to 20250328.00

Status in gce-compute-image-packages package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in gce-compute-image-packages source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in gce-compute-image-packages source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in gce-compute-image-packages source package in Noble:
  Fix Committed
Status in gce-compute-image-packages source package in Oracular:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  ==== FFe

  Please except this version for plucky before the release. catred
  provides good detail here [0], but essentially version
  20250107.00-0ubuntu1 in plucky affects cloud-init due to newly
  included systemd-networkd hooks. A user attempting to set their
  hostname via cloud-init will no longer get the expected hostname, but
  rather the internal default hostname set by Google. For any users
  upgrading to plucky who are using cloud-init with a large fleet, this
  would be a breaking change.

  It also (selfishly) would help CPC a lot to get this new version in
  quickly. There are 2 other SRUs (LP: #2096765 && LP: #2096657) blocked
  until this new version here can also be SRU-ed (as we validate all the
  Google guest packages "wholesale" due to their interplay).

  [0]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/google-guest-
  agent/+bug/2096765/comments/19

  ########### SRU

  ==== Bug

  Following on from similar package update requests @ LP: #2084486, LP:
  #2073164, LP: #2066314 and LP: #2033061, this bug is a request to
  update gce-compute-image-packages to the upstream version
  `20250328.00` @ https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-
  configs/releases/tag/20250328.00

  This package has an SRU exception @
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#gce-compute-image-
  packages including an ageing exception detailed @
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates

  [Impact]

  This package is provided by Google for installation within guests that
  run on Google Compute Engine. It is part of a collection of tools and
  daemons, that ensure that the Ubuntu images published to GCE run
  properly on their platform.

  Cloud platforms evolve at a rate that can't be handled in six-month
  increments, and they will often develop features that they would like
  to be available to customers who don't want to upgrade from earlier
  Ubuntu releases. As such, updating this package to more recent
  upstream releases is required within all Ubuntu releases, so they
  continue to function properly in the GCP environment.

  [Test Case]

  When a new version of this package is uploaded to -proposed, the
  following will happen:

   * an image based on -proposed will be built for GCE and published to the ubuntu-os-cloud-image-proposed project
   * the CPC team will run internal validations (CTF) and Google's upstream test suite `cloud-image-tests` (CIT)
   * the GCE team will be asked to validate that the new package addresses the issues it is expected to address, and that the image passes their own internal image validation.

  We will also re-validate that this new version does not have the
  regression introduced by 20250107.00-0ubuntu1 (LP: #2096762, not SRU-
  ed)

  If all the testing indicates that the new package is acceptable,
  verification can be considered done.

  [Vendored Dependencies]

  N/A for gce-compute-image-packages

  [Where Problems Could Occur]

  There are some minor upstream changes in `20250328.00-ubuntu1` vs.
  `20250107.00-0ubuntu1`; however between the cloud-image-tests suite
  [0] (which is run for validation by CPC _and_ Google) and CPC's own
  internal test harness (CTF), there is confidence that most if not all
  "edge cases" and/or obvious regressions concerns can be dismissed
  before the new version lands in `-updates`.

  [Other Information]

  This bug is used for tracking of releasing the new upstream version
  for all supported series, as per the approved policy mentioned in the
  following MRE:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gce-compute-image-packages-Updates

  This package is only used for AMD64 and ARM64 but is built for all
  available architectures.

  [0]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-image-tests

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