Careful if releasing Jammy SRUs

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hi,

Britney has been crashing[1] when processing the Jammy archive, and
the excuses[2] report is out of date, with a timestamp of June 15th.

This means that the Pending SRUs page[3] does not represent the
correct status of Jammy SRUs when it comes to autopkgtest runs, at
least not for uploads since June 15th.

Keep this in mind if you need to release a Jammy SRU now, while this
is still broken. You would have to go to
https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/ and check that the autopkgtest was
indeed run and is green, but more problematic, that the reverse tests
also ran, and are also green, for all architectures. There is no
trivial way to check this last part.

If the upload happened before June 15th, then the jammy excuses page
might be still correct for that package, but keep in mind that other
uploads have happened since then, and reverse tests could have been
triggered and their results will not be in the report, so it's still
risky to assume everything is fine.

Bottom line, it's probably best to wait and not release Jammy SRUs
until this is resolved.


1. https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-migration/log/jammy/2023-06-29/17:29:43.log
2. https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-migration/jammy/update_excuses.html
3. https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/pending-sru.html