[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#1002564: Bug#1002564: lxc: packaging adjustments for LXD

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 02:25:06PM +0000, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> 
> 
> On December 25, 2021 12:35:45 PM UTC, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 06:04:04AM +0000, Mathias Gibbens wrote:
> >> Source: lxc
> >> Version: 1:4.0.10-1
> >> Severity: normal
> >> 
> >>   Work on packaging LXD for Debian (ITP #768073) is getting pretty
> >> close to completion. I've recently started testing the LXD package that
> >> I am able to build locally, making sure everything is working properly
> >> before it's uploaded to NEW once the few remaining dependencies make it
> >> through NEW themselves.
> >> 
> >>   LXD depends on the liblxc1 package, but not on the lxc package
> >> itself. However, there are a few files currently shipped in the lxc
> >> package that LXD needs to properly start. Specifically, the apparmor
> >> profiles (all of /etc/apparmor.d/, except /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.lxc-
> >> start) and the /usr/lib/<arch>-linux-gnu/lxc/rootfs/ directory.
> >> 
> >>   I'm hoping we can figure out a nice way to make these dependencies of
> >> LXD available without having to pull in lxc itself (plus its own
> >> dependencies). The easiest way might be to just move them to liblxc1,
> >> which both lxc and LXD packages will depend on. Or, there might be some
> >> other solution that could work.
> >
> >They probably would need to be provided by a (NEW) lxc-common package.
> >If we ever need to transition to liblxc2, we don't want both liblxc*
> >packages providing those files.
> 
> On Ubuntu, this package us called liblxc-common, which we probably
> should also use, to make life of other consumers easier?

Sure! I didn't check there first.
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