[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#923931: upgrade breaks old containers

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Le vendredi 08 mars 2019 à 10:09:14+0100, Harald Dunkel a écrit :
> Hi Antonio,
> 
> wven if Recommends is turned off, its obvious that the template
> specific include files are *required* for a successful migration
> to lxc 3. It shouldn't matter that Recommends is turned off.
> 
> Platform specific template scripts might be considered as deprecated
> by upstream [1], but
> 
> * the promised "distrobuilder" is not in Debian, AFAICT
> * we are talking about the platform specific config files here
> 
> Regards

Hi Harald,

I'm sorry, but lxc-templates is not needed to have lxc3 working, so it
won't become a Dependency. Moving the files from src:lxc-templates to
src:lxc and subsequently creating two DS uploads is not a fine solution
either.

I admit the situation is not perfect, and lxc-update-config is not able
to see such issues and warn you.

I assume that whoever disables the recommends know what they do and can
find a solution by themselves. I'm eager to put a specific warning in
the debian/NEWS file for those using apt-listchanges, or even a prompt
warning for the issue in the upgrade script, but at some point, there is
no perfect solution.

In any case I'll have th have this accepted by the release managers as
the timeline for the freeze crosses the delay for such a change to be
included.

If you have a better suggestion I'm open to it, but for now I don't
intend to fix this issue with one of the solutions you suggested.

Best regards,

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Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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