[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#919366: lxc: LXC branch 3.1 is not suitable for production use.

[drak]

Package: lxc
Version: 1:3.1.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

LXC 3.1 is development branch and not suitable for long term and production use.
For the upcoming Debian Buster, LXC 3.0 would be better - its LTS and has support until 2023.

see: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-3-1-has-been-released/3527

"This is an intermediary feature release and not one of our major LTS releases or LTS bugfix releases.
We plan on doing more of those in the future, but note that support on those releases will be limited
as we mostly focus on LTS for production environments."

"LXC 3.1 isn’t a LTS release and so will only be supported until such time as LXC 3.2 is released.
We recommend users that need a stronger support commitment to stay on one of our LTS releases."


Thanks,

Roman


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lxc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.69
ii  libc6                  2.28-5
ii  libcap2                1:2.25-1.2
ii  libgnutls30            3.6.5-2
ii  liblxc1                1:3.1.0-1
ii  libseccomp2            2.3.3-3
ii  libselinux1            2.8-1+b1
ii  lsb-base               10.2018112800

Versions of packages lxc recommends:
ii  bridge-utils                 1.5-16
ii  debootstrap                  1.0.114
ii  dirmngr                      2.2.12-1
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.80-1
ii  gnupg                        2.2.12-1
ii  iproute2                     4.19.0-2
ii  iptables                     1.8.2-3
ii  libpam-cgfs                  1:3.1.0-1
ii  lxc-templates                3.0.3-1
ii  lxcfs                        3.0.3-2
ii  openssl                      1.1.1a-1
ii  rsync                        3.1.3-1
ii  uidmap                       1:4.5-1.1

Versions of packages lxc suggests:
pn  apparmor     <none>
pn  btrfs-progs  <none>
pn  lvm2         <none>
pn  python3-lxc  <none>

-- debconf information excluded