New upstream bugfix release 1.0.8 (LXC MRE)

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/1.0.8-0ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Bug #1515463 reveals that this change broke Juju. Marking as verification failed.

I'll send an updated package to trusty-proposed later today.

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/1.0.8-0ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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We had a report from Jean-Baptiste that a recent change in this stable release makes it fail on older kernels (pre-3.8). Not a problem with the generic kernel but a problem for folks using the Android kernels, so we'll need to push an update (probably a new upstream bugfix release).

Hello Stéphane, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lxc into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/1.0.8-0ubuntu0.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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This bug was fixed in the package lxc - 1.0.8-0ubuntu0.3

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lxc (1.0.8-0ubuntu0.3) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick from upstream:
    - Fix preserve_ns to work on < 3.8 kernels. (LP: #1516971)

lxc (1.0.8-0ubuntu0.2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick from upstream:
    - Fix ubuntu-cloud template to detect compression algorithm instead
      of hardcoding xz. Also update list of supported releases and use trusty
      as the fallback release. (LP: #1515463)
  * Update lxc-tests description to make it clear that this package is
    meant to be used by developers and by automated testing.

lxc (1.0.8-0ubuntu0.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release. (MRE tracking bug: LP: #1514623)
    (LP: #1429140)
    - Changelog at: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/news/
  * Drop proxy detection from the autopkgtest exercise script.
  * Add patch:
    - 0001-Trusty-Swap-out-the-CVE-2015-1335-fix-with-the-trust.patch
      This is a patch by Serge Hallyn to cope with the trusty 3.13 kernel.
      It updates the upstream CVE fix to the version which trusty ended
      up with after the few round of fixes.

 -- Stéphane Graber <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:42:07 -0500

The verification of the Stable Release Update for lxc 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.