Comment 2 for bug 1983306

Hi Peter,

Thanks for reporting. I wouldn't expect validation to succeed on include format user-data for the following reason:

Per the man page[1] and user docs[2], the schema command is for validating cloud-config files. In the future we could potentially add validation for include or other user-data formats, but for now it doesn't support anything besides cloud-config files. If you see anywhere that the docs claim that the schema validator supports all user-data formats, please let us know so we can correct it. I don't see anywhere at this time, but it's possible I missed something in the docs.

> This wouldn't be a practical problem for me, but due to #1983303 I get mangled logs and can't work around it.

Can you expand on this statement please? How does this block you?

I'm marking this as Incomplete until we get more information on how mangled logs cannot be worked around.

[1] https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/doc/man/cloud-init.1
[2] https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/cli.html?highlight=schema#schema