[pkg-go] Bug#1062176: podman: Package containers-storage should be recommended

[Holger Leskien]

Package: podman
Version: 4.3.1+ds1-8+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

at the moment the dependency on the containers-storage package is "suggests"
only. However, this means that the package is not installed when podman is
installed and rootless (all?) containers are then started with the storage
driver vfs, even though overlay would be possible. This is slow, uses much more
space and leads to a poor user experience.

I only noticed that vfs was the cause with a large image with many layers and
looked for a solution. Installing containers-storage would have been so easy.

Please change the dependency to Recommends.

Kind regards

Holger


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.4
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages podman depends on:
ii  conmon                           2.1.6+ds1-1
ii  crun                             1.8.1-1+deb12u1
ii  golang-github-containers-common  0.50.1+ds1-4
ii  libc6                            2.36-9+deb12u4
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1               2:1.02.185-2
ii  libgpgme11                       1.18.0-3+b1
ii  libseccomp2                      2.5.4-1+b3
ii  libsubid4                        1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1

Versions of packages podman recommends:
ii  buildah            1.28.2+ds1-3+b1
ii  catatonit          0.1.7-1+b1
ii  dbus-user-session  1.14.10-1~deb12u1
ii  fuse-overlayfs     1.10-1
ii  slirp4netns        1.2.0-1
ii  uidmap             1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1

Versions of packages podman suggests:
ii  containers-storage  1.43.0+ds1-8
pn  docker-compose      <none>
ii  iptables            1.8.9-2

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