Bug#999400: cloud-init: Update cloud-init in stable for newer version of Azure IMDS
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:05:12PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Due to an update on the Azure side, it would be helpful to support the
> newer API version of IMDS within cloud-init, a patch, that didn't make
> it to stable, as of the time the change was made, changes on cloud-init
> weren't allowed in the Debian freeze process.
>
> The proposed change can be found here:
> https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/884/, though the patch on
> Github will not apply cleanly directly on the version of cloud-init in
> stable. I would be willing to prepare a more clean patch for that.
Could we also get the fix for
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979974 into stable at
the same time? (Assuming it's actually needed; if you could help with
confirmation of that it would be good.)
> Also this code only affects one cloud vendor and should not break stuff
> on other cloud vendors platform. It only adds information for IMDS.
Agreed, I think the SRMs will be OK with this. We should show as much
evidence of testing as is practical to help ease any concerns that they
may have.
> Would this be a patch we would agree to be carried through the full
> release cycle of Debian 11?
It looks reasonable to me.
noah
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