On 09/09/2017 03:16 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Control: tag -1 moreinfo > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:56:16 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 08/06/2017 07:12 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >>> Control: tag -1 moreinfo >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:45:57PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>>> diff -Nru cloud-init-0.7.9/debian/cloud-init.NEWS >>>> cloud-init-0.7.9/debian/cloud-init.NEWS >>>> --- cloud-init-0.7.9/debian/cloud-init.NEWS 1970-01-01 >>>> 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 >>>> +++ cloud-init-0.7.9/debian/cloud-init.NEWS 2017-08-02 >>>> 20:28:11.000000000 +0200 >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ >>>> +cloud-init default behavior from upstream is to manage sources.list for >>>> Debian, >>>> +adding contrib and non-free by default. This is clearly a bug which we >>>> have >>>> +fixed. If you need contrib and non-free on your computer running >>>> cloud-init, >>>> +then please use /etc/apt/sources.list.d facility, instead of the >>>> generalfile >>>> +in /etc/apt/sources.list, as we changed the behavior. Our appologies for >>>> this >>>> +change. >>>> + >>>> + -- Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:28:11 +0200 >>> >>> Is NEWS the appropriate place for this, or would README or the changelog be >>> better? As it will only be shown when upgrading existing systems, this will >>> simply be noise (those systems will already have a sources.list). >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >> >> Hi, >> >> I have removed the README.Debian file, and re-uploaded to: > > Why? The contents of that README seem harmless, and Jonathan's question > was about the change in this specific update, and the NEWS file, not > README.Debian.
Could you please explain *clearly* what the release team wants me to do about this? Should I write something in NEWS, README.Debian, or just nothing? After reading the above, I'm confused. > > TBH I'm not sure a behaviour change like this is appropriate for stable, > although it can be argued that people won't deploy it without testing > first. Is the behaviour configurable somehow? I'm 100% sure that Debian doesn't want to publish a cloud images through cdimage.debian.org that has the non-free and contrib repositories activated by default. Also, I don't see what component from non-free would be required to make a cloud image working (said otherwise: it wont break anybody's setup). This is clearly a *mistake* that we should be trying to fix ASAP, unless the whole community changed mind and now believes contrib and non-free should be activated in Debian by default. Yes, the behavior is configurable. One can edit cloud-init config to stop managing the sources.list, but I wouldn't recommend that, as it would also stop it to do apt-get update / upgrade at boot time. Instead, one should add the contrib and non-free repositories in sources.list.d, which is exactly what I was attempting to advise in README.Debian or NEWS (as you may have not read, it seems...). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
