[SRU] xe-guest-utilities suddenly depends on cloud-init

Uploaded new versions that drop the depends of cloud-init. Pending archive admins to accept the SRU.

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu2

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu2) wily; urgency=medium

  * Drop 'depends' for cloud-init (LP: #1496730).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:57:54 -0600

By dropping the dependency on cloud-init in the trusty and precise versions, the xe-cloud service will no longer be started at boot because the upstart job is 'start on starting cloud-init-nonet' which will never trigger.

This sounds like it would also be a behavior regression for those users who want xe-guest-utilities but not cloud-init.

This behavior change does not affect releases using systemd, because the systemd unit only mentions cloud-init as 'Before=' (ordering constraint), not 'Requires=' (dependency constraint).

Sorry, I just realized I completely missed (forgot) that the upstart job which depends on cloud-init is there *only* to ensure ordering with cloud-init. So this isn't actually a problem at all.

Hello Erik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xe-guest-utilities into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~12.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Erik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xe-guest-utilities into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~14.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Hello Erik, or anyone else affected,

Accepted xe-guest-utilities into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xe-guest-utilities/6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~15.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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The update does not pull in cloud-init. Tested on Ubuntu Trusty.

Thanks for the fast response.

Please note #1497248 before pushing this out.

I've confirmed that the updated package in -proposed does not bring Cloud-init by default and still works with Cloud-init as intended. +1 on releasing this.

Validated trusty and precise. Only libxenstore3.0, xenstore-utils, and xe-guest-utilities were installed

I checked Precise, Trusty, and Vivid with non-cloud-image xen guests and the proposed package and none pulls in cloud-init any more. Also did a quick check to see that after installation /local/domain/<id>/data contains the os info.

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~12.04.1

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~12.04.1) precise; urgency=medium

  * Drop 'depends' for cloud-init (LP: #1496730).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:53:32 -0600

The verification of the Stable Release Update for xe-guest-utilities has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~14.04.1

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~14.04.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Drop 'depends' for cloud-init (LP: #1496730).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:56:48 -0600

This bug was fixed in the package xe-guest-utilities - 6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~15.04.1

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xe-guest-utilities (6.2.0-1120+dsf1-0ubuntu1~15.04.1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Drop 'depends' for cloud-init (LP: #1496730).

 -- Ben Howard <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:59:29 -0600

However, why do the xe-daemon.service unit orders itself before cloud-init? Is it required at all?
Cause it seems to me that xe-daemon.service should instead be:
Wants=cloud-config.target
After=cloud-config.target

no?

In some occasions it can need to go before cloud-init.
That happen recently to fix a bug for RAX:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cpc-rax/+bug/1657223

xe-deamon.service in that case had to go before nova-agent.service which in turn needed to go before ANYTHING expected the network to be configured, specially cloud-init.