Public bug reported: The Ubuntu kernel team has continued to carry aufs support as a sauce patch but there is no known application for this filesystem anymore except for docker deployments using this deprecated storage option.
We can't expect the kernel team to carry this deprecated filesystem indefinitely merely because docker.io upstream hasn't provided a migration path for existing installs. If we can't do a smooth conversion on upgrade of the docker.io package from aufs to another storage backend, then at the very least we need to draw a line and block the upgrades between releases. So for hirsute we should make use of aufs in the docker config to result in blocking the upgrade in preinst. We should also add a quirk to ubuntu-release-upgrader, so that on release upgrades this case can be detected before starting the upgrade and causing maintainer script failures in the middle. We don't really want this change to be SRUed back to prior releases, but this is subject to being revisited if the focal HWE kernel needs to drop aufs support. ** Affects: docker.io (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: New ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: High Status: New ** Affects: docker.io (Ubuntu Hirsute) Importance: High Status: New ** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Hirsute) Importance: High Status: New ** Tags: fr-1000 ** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: docker.io (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Hirsute) Importance: High Status: New ** Also affects: docker.io (Ubuntu Hirsute) Importance: High Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1907713 Title: aufs support is deprecated and should be handled on upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/docker.io/+bug/1907713/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs