[DRE-maint] Bug#1049999: Bug#1104105: cloud.debian.org: please update vagrant testing / trixie boxes

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi Filippo,

On 25/04/25 at 18:35 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> Package: cloud.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: filippo at debian.org
> 
> Hello,
> with Trixie getting progressively more frozen, I'm testing (hah!) upgrades with
> Vagrant and debian/testing64. I noticed the current image at [0] is a few months old;
> it would be great to have an updated version available. Thank you !
> 
> best,
> Filippo
> 
> [0] https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover/debian/testing64

I tried to update the image, but again ran into issues with
authenticatiing on the Hashicorp cloud. This is so frustrating. Back in
January, HashiCorp broke authentication for free versions of Vagrant for
several weeks (<< 2.4), and I had to use the non-free version to update
the image. I still managed to upload the new version manually using the web
interface.

As I said in #1049999, I gave up on maintaining Vagrant. I'm also
giving up on maintaining Debian images. If someone wants to take over,
the tooling at
https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-vagrant-images/ still works
(except for the upload part) and I can walk you through it if needed.

But Vagrant is now non-free, has a limited future in Debian, and I would
urge anybody looking at it to investigate alternatives.

Personnally, I switched to Incus and since I missed a declarative way to
describe my environments, I wrote Incant, a Vagrant-inspired frontend
that brings that to Incus. (See https://github.com/lnussbaum/incant/)
Also Incus has an image for Debian trixie uploaded on a regular basis
(daily I think).

Lucas