[pkg-go] Bug#1000521: libpod: please provide podman-remote binary

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi Antonio,

thanks for reaching out,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 8:45 AM Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
wrote:

> Source: libpod
> Version: 3.4.1+ds1-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Recent podman upstream releases provide a new podman-remote binary, but
> the Debian package does not even build it.
>
> I'm used to packages providing binaries without a manpage, but this is
> the first time I have seen the opposite! :-)
>
> $ dpkg -S podman-remote
> podman: /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_podman-remote
> podman: /usr/share/man/man1/podman-remote.1.gz
>

I plan to remove the manpage in a future upload. The remote functionality
is backed into the podman binary directly, please refer to podman(1) how to
use the 'podman --remote' functionality.

Background: I brought this up to the podman cabal meeting (cf. meeting
notes at https://hackmd.io/gQCfskDuRLm7iOsWgH2yrg?both) -- Fedora does ship
indeed a smaller podman-remote binary which the manpage is pointing to. Dan
suggested to use  use "podman --remote" instead. I couldn't figure out how
to build the smaller executable. Fedora is using the upstream Makefiles,
which we don't use in the Debian packaging. Instead, we are using the
golang debhelper which takes care of all the unbundling.

Best,
-rt
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