[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#768073: ITP: lxd - The Linux Container Daemon - LXC team take over ITP?

[Evgeni Golov]

Ohai,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:25:15AM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote:
> > I think that an ITP that has been inactive this long could be taken over by
> > another interested party without it being a hijack, all things considered.
> > (I think some QA script might move it to RFP soon anyway).
> >
> > Adnan, how's it going?
> >
> > There's a pkg-lxc team already. Since this package is/will be very inter-related to
> > LXC, perhaps it should be developed in that team? Team CCed. Are they interested?
> > Are you in pkg-lxc already?

Yes, Adnan is in pkg-lxc and technically the team is interested (given it falls into the same software stack) to have the whole stack available in Debian.
But I must admit I personally have no use for it and not enough Go knowledge to package it properly.

> > What's the state of the Ubuntu package? Could that make a good starting point? How
> > much hacking before that would be suitable for an experimental upload at least?

Yes, taking the Ubuntu package is a start is what we did with the other LXC components
and that worked out pretty well so far.

> I took a quick look at the package source obtained via:
> 
>     dget -u http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lxd/lxd_2.2-0ubuntu1.dsc
...
> So, I guess the first step would be to package
> golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3, golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2,
> golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2 and golang-petname, or simply grab these
> existing Ubuntu packages, make a few minor changes to debian/control
> and debian/changelog, file ITPs to the Debian BTS, and finally upload
> them to Debian.
> 
> I do not see too many hurdles after that, at least I hope not.  ;-)

IIRC that's similar to what Adnan told me the last time we talked about LXD.

> Also, should the Debian lxd be team-maintained by the pkg-lxc team or
> the pkg-go team?  What do you think?

Whatever works? :-)
Stack-wise it's more pkg-lxc, language-wise pkg-go...
I'd guess it will need coordination to both, LXC and other Go uploads at times too.

Greets
Evgeni