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

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:54:14AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
> 
> On 3/8/19 2:30 PM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> lxc-templates is necessary for a successful migration of the containers
> generated on Stretch. I do not know what else I can say about this.

I'm not going to repeat the explanation why lxc-templates is not a hard
dependency of lxc. This hard dependency will need to be dropped at some
point, either now or in the future. Now or then, people who blindly
disable Recommends: AND don't read NEWS entries will be affected, and
we will have to live with that.
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