Re: cloud-init should not depend on cloud-guest-utils anymore
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 02:49:26AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 3/7/20 11:53 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > So in case we'd be removing this dependency to satisfy your container
> > use case (which is IMO very valid), we should carefully re-add a
> > dependency on cloud-utils in our VM images.
>
> If I may add if it wasn't obvious with what I wrote: our VM images must
> be changed *first* to include the new dependency, before we remove it
> from the cloud-init package.
+1 to the proposal to drop the dependency. Let's drop it to Recommends,
rather than removing it altogether, though. And yes, we should update
the debian-cloud-images FAI configuration to ensure that
cloud-guest-utils is still installed in the environments where we're
currently installing it.
noah
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