Backport finalrd 6 to xenial and up

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted finalrd into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/finalrd/6~ubuntu20.04.1 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.

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted finalrd into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/finalrd/6~ubuntu18.04.1 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-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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.

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted finalrd (6~ubuntu20.04.1) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

casper/1.445.1 (amd64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#finalrd

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted finalrd into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/finalrd/6~ubuntu16.04.1 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-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. 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.

installed finalrd 6~ubuntu18.04.1 on bionic system.

observed that running $ sudo finalrd, manually doesn't produce any errors.

added extra hook with 6 second delay, and printing args. It did show that finalrd is running and printing things to the serial console on reboot & shutdown.

installed finalrd 6~ubuntu20.04.1 on focal system

observed that running $ sudo finalrd, manually doesn't produce any errors.

added extra hook with 6 second delay, and printing args. finalrd is running and hook is executed on shutdown as observed on the serial console.

installed finalrd 6~ubuntu16.04.1 on xenial system

observed that running $ sudo finalrd, manually doesn't produce any errors.

Observed that finalrd is used on shutdown too.

Next up is building core snaps with these finalrd packages preinstalled.

The verification of the Stable Release Update for finalrd has completed successfully and the package is now being 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 finalrd - 6~ubuntu20.04.1

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finalrd (6~ubuntu20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to focal (LP: #1895160)

finalrd (6) groovy; urgency=medium

  * xenial compat - ensure directories exist before using them
  * Change packaging to be compatible with debhelper 9
  * Update code name to 6

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:53:09 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package finalrd - 6~ubuntu18.04.1

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finalrd (6~ubuntu18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to bionic (LP: #1895160)

finalrd (6) groovy; urgency=medium

  * xenial compat - ensure directories exist before using them
  * Change packaging to be compatible with debhelper 9
  * Update code name to 6

finalrd (5) focal; urgency=medium

  * Introduce hookless mode
  * Update initrd-release file to Five Man Alive

finalrd (4) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Set and export `verbose' variable for initramfs-tools, otherwise,
    finalrd fails to create shutdown initrd, resulting in shutdown hangs.

finalrd (3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Drop finarld hooks.
  * Do not remount /run with suid, not needed.
  * Depend on initramfs-tools-core.

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:54:08 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package finalrd - 6~ubuntu16.04.1

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finalrd (6~ubuntu16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to xenial (LP: #1895160)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:54:18 +0100

finalrd is now seeded into system-image in xenial. But because it is a brand new package in -updates pocket only, it doesn't gain Task: ubuntu-core, as that is only done for packages that exist in release pocket.

Thus adding Task:ubuntu-core by hand.