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The Technical Board approved such an approach in the meeting on
2016-XX-XX.

This document describes the policy for updating the docker.io group of packages (docker.io, containerd, runc) in a stable supported distro, in particular LTS releases.

Basically docker is a sufficiently fast-moving project that we provide more value to our users by delivering an "upstream" experience rather than worrying over-much about backward compatibility or regressions.

Process

The aim is to backport the .1 release of a major version to the current LTS as soon as possible after it has been released.

To do this we will, once the .0 release is out:

  1. File (or find, our users are quite proactive about wanting this) a bug to cover the upgrade.
  2. Upload the .0 release to the current development series of Ubuntu but use a block-proposed tag on the update bug to prevent it migrating to release, so we can sort out any new build or packaging or autopkgtest problems.
  3. Once .1 is released, this can be uploaded to the devel series (and the block-proposed tag be removed) where it should quickly migrate to release.
  4. Once it has migrated, it can then be uploaded with minimal necessary changes to the SRU queue of the most recent LTS.

We will reuse the upgrade bug for the SRU but this need not include detailed test case or regression potential sections (it should link to this page for the sake of the SRU team member doing the review!).

QA

As hinted above, we will not do amazingly extensive QA. The package has a basic autopkgtest which catches gross breakages and in practice has caught most packaging issues so far (the only problem I am aware of it missing is a problem in containerd on arm64 because we do not run autopkgtests on arm64).

There is also an autopkgtest that exercises "docker in lxd" as described in https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/13/stephane-graber-lxd-2-0-docker-in-lxd-712/ .

The autopkgtests require machine level isolation and so today only run on amd64, i386 and ppc64el. We should run them by hand on arm64 and s390x until those architectures support machine-level isolation autopkgtests.

This QA should happen both for the -proposed -> -release migration in the devel series and again as part of the SRU verification.

DockerUpdates (last edited 2023-09-15 19:46:24 by lucaskanashiro)