Foundations Team Updates - 2025-07-17

waveform · July 17, 2025, 3:33pm

Questing

Uploaded A/B boot implementation (LP: #2116266):
- Pending AA review as it includes a new package (flash-kernel-piboot)
- Update the raspi platform seed
- Update the pi-gadget to conform to the new boot partition layout (PR pending)
Uploaded new ubuntu-raspi-settings for questing:
- Fix for mkswap.service failure (LP: #2116275)
- Fix for debsums showing changes to file (LP: #2063887)
- Merged changes to pi-gadget to generate swap file in cloud-init’s user-data on desktop
Merged changes to the image definition yaml to fix the filenames (forgot this when updating plucky->questing!)
- Thanks to @utkarsh for the quick review!
Merged changes to slim down the Ubuntu Desktop for raspi images (base on desktop-minimal, not desktop) (LP: #2103808)
- Prepped and tested an updated image definition (which, for some reason duplicates the seed names) to see how much this actually slimmed the image (~777MB it turns out)
- Thanks again to @utkarsh for the rapid review!
- Uploaded updated ubuntu-meta
- Updated questing release notes to warn upgraders that some “common” applications may disappear on upgrade (but can be easily reinstalled)

Rejected the old slimmed-down branch for plucky as that didn’t make it in time for release (LP: #2103808)
Sponsored flash-kernel db addition for @xypron (LP: #2116161)