On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 12:18:15PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 at 15:22, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 09:56:05AM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > > Can techboard please action the following request for Noble distro series
> > > https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/709163 ?

> > > It is acked by the apt repository format maintainer.

> > That link refers to getting consent from (I think) archive admins? Do we
> > have/need such an ack? Also, do we have someone who can take
> > responsibility for dealing with any fallout, please?

> Vorlon sort of punted it to Julian at (previous superseded merge
> proposal over here) -

> https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/launchpad/+git/launchpad/+merge/452749/comments/1233269
> (advert of just i18n/Index being implemented)
> https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/launchpad/+git/launchpad/+merge/452749/comments/1233384
> (vorlon's punt)
> https://code.launchpad.net/~xnox/launchpad/+git/launchpad/+merge/453586
> (the merge where just the i18n/Index got implemented)

> In general, Archive Admins should be aware that this setting is
> changing, as likely any unforeseen fallout will be escalated to
> Archive Admins.
> The plan for dealing with any fallout is to flip the setting back to
> True, and file a bug report against launchpad (and likely alert myself
> & Guruprasad L).
> This change has passed all unit tests, integration testing on
> qastaging, and has been tested to publish primary and ppa archives.
> The likely fallout is from unforseen clients only. And there the
> judgement call needs to be made to transition those from i18n/Index to
> InRelease (the latter has been there forever enough, containing all
> needed information for a long time now).
> Given the ACL on the permission, the fallout request to toggle needs
> to be escalated back to techboard and/or launchpad admins.

As an AA on the TB I am taking responsibility for any fallout here, and have
made the requested change.

Non-apt clients of the archive relying on an unsigned index file with sha1
checksumming should be fixed.  I don't know what such clients could be, but
let's find them ASAP.

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