I would like to ask you to reconsider the decision to make ubuntu- minimal depend on ubuntu-advantage-tools.
You can skip this paragraph if you're in a hurry. First, thank you for holding this discussion in the open. I totally understand the marketing reasons for this: I depend on Canonical's distribution, and want Canonical to offer their paying customers a fantastic out-of-the-box experience so that they can continue to offer their services to the general public, too. That said, the ubuntu-advantage-tools package is not in fact strictly necessary to allow the machine to boot, detect hardware, connect to a network, install packages or perform basic diagnostics. With ubuntu- minimal 1.400, this is now essentially a mandatory piece of software that will, at best, emit an error message. Would changing the relationship from Depends to Recommends meet your requirements (automatic setup on every Ubuntu machine) while allowing manual removal of the package? Actually, one could argue that the ubuntu-minimal package on non-LTS releses should Conflict, not Depend, on ubuntu-advantage-tools. This ought to cause for the automatic removal of the package when dist- upgrading to a non-LTS release. That would give the package scripts a chance to warn the system administrator that they are about to give up on the benefits of their paid subscription. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1686183 Title: Ship ubuntu-advantage in ubuntu-minimal Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Trusty: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Xenial: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Yakkety: Won't Fix Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Yakkety: Won't Fix Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Zesty: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Zesty: Confirmed Status in ubuntu-advantage-tools source package in Artful: Fix Released Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Artful: Fix Released Bug description: The ubuntu-advantage-tools package is a bit odd as it was first landed in precise to support the ESM effort inside canonical. [0] In order to bring this package up to date across other series in ubuntu, it has been recommended by the Ubuntu Foundations team to land into trusty next, then forward-port pocket-copy to all supported series until we get to the devel release. The version here: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/ubuntu-advantage- script/releases/tag/v2 ... has all on-disk bits correctly working, for all series, but no-ops on any release other than precise (ESM is only for "unsupported" LTS releases as it were). This is a request to land ubuntu-advantage- tools into trusty, then pocket-copy it to supported series of ubuntu once that is finished. [Impact] * Allow ubuntu-advantage users to access the extended security maintenance script with a simple command line tool. This script needs to hit precise machines and be easy for ubuntu-advantage customers to enable, thus basefiles was chosen as a home. [Test Case] * Run ubuntu-advantage, it should print out help * Run sudo ubuntu-advantage enable <token> (without sudo it will warn you), but you need to be an ubuntu-advantage customer to get that token. In the end, the script simply adds and removes an /etc/apt/sources.list.d entry. * Verify that the MOTD does not contain any mention of ubuntu- advantage esm or precise and its end of life * Verify that ubuntu-advantage enable-esm <token> installs needed dependencies: - create the following file and its contents to have apt not install recommended packages by default: $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-recommends APT::Install-Recommends "false"; - remove ca-certificates and apt-transport-https: $ sudo apt remove ca-certificates apt-transport-https - run sudo ubuntu-advantage enable-esm <token> and verify that the two removed packages are reinstalled * you can contact me (d...@canonical.com) if you would like a token for test purposes. [Regression Potential] * Low, this is a new script, not included in any automated startup paths. [Other Info] * http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2017/03/ubuntu-1204-esm.html [0] https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/14/introducing-ubuntu-12-04 -esm-extended-security-maintenance/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-advantage-tools/+bug/1686183/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
