[pkg-lxc-devel] Deprecation of lxc-templates in favor of distrobuilder

[Mathias Gibbens]

  lxc 6.0.0a was uploaded to unstable yesterday. As a reminder, lxc-
templates has been moved from Recommends to Suggests. This might be
causing an issue in the salsa CI's "autopkgtest" job[1]. The easy fix
is to add lxc-templates to the list of packages needed to support
running that job. A better fix will be to transition that job to using
lxc images built via distrobuilder.

  Please keep your eyes open for other breakages and let me know if you
find any.

Thanks,
Mathias

[1] -- https://salsa.debian.org/gibmat/openrct2/-/jobs/5676273

On Mon, 2024-04-01 at 01:58 +0000, Mathias Gibbens wrote:
>   lxc-templates has been deprecated upstream since the lxc 3.0
> release[1,2] in favor of distrobuilder. distrobuilder is now available
> in testing and sid, and should be part of the upcoming trixie release.
> 
>   While there are no plans to remove lxc-templates from the archive, I
> would like to start socializing the use of distrobuilder instead. This
> is because lxc-templates is unsupported by upstream and all current
> work on container/VM images is being done in distrobuilder. At the
> moment lxc-templates continue to work, there is no guarantee for how
> long this will be true. Small tweaks or adjustments here and there
> might keep it alive for another Debian release or two, but it's
> essentially dead.
> 
>   Within the next week or so lxc 6.0 is expected to be released. As
> part of the packaging updates, it is planned to move lxc-templates from
> bin:lxc's Recommends to Suggests, and add distrobuilder to Recommends.
> 
>   As we are still early in the trixie development cycle, I hope there
> will be plenty of time to resolve any issues that might be found when
> switching to distrobuilder.
> 
>   lxc-templates does have one advantage over distrobuilder -- it is
> available for all of Debian's non-Hurd architectures, while
> distrobuilder is only available on release architectures plus loong64.
> I don't know if this will actually impact anyone (x32 maybe?) but it is
> something to be aware of.
> 
> Mathias
> 
> [1] -- https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxc-3-0-0-has-been-released/1449
> [2] -- https://brauner.io/2018/02/27/lxc-removes-legacy-template-build-system.html
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