On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:25:02 -0700 Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 05:54:03AM +0000, Yuhua Zou wrote:
> > The version of package cloud-init in official repository of Debian 10.9 is
> > 20.2.
> > This version 20.2 is far behind the latest released version 21.2.
> > Please check [1]https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init
> >
> > With cloud-init version >=21.1, we can support the feature “guest OS
> > customization with cloud-init engine” in vmware vsphere.
> > Would you please help rebase the package cloud-init to the latest released
> > version in Debian? Thanks
>
> While not completely impossible, it's quite difficult to update
> cloud-init to a new upstream release within the stable release branch.
> Such a change carries high risk and is generally in conflict with
> Debian's stable release policies.
>
> Could you provide more detail about the specific changes that you
> require? If you can point to specific commits or pull requests in the
> upstream git repository, that would be helpful. My first inclination
> would be to investigate backporting specific targeted changes if
> possible.
>
> noah
>
>
>
Hi noah,
Thanks for your quick response.
For the code change on cloud-init, please refer to pull requests:
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/691
https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/774
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Best regards
Yuhua Zou