[Freedombox-discuss] status of lxc in debian wheezy (was: Re: jails in Debian?)

Joost van Baal-Ilić joostvb-freedombox at mdcc.cx
Mon Feb 4 14:17:56 UTC 2013


Hi,

[Cc-ing the bug.]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Rob van der Hoeven wrote:
> > > the Lenny repositories are not available anymore. LXC on Wheezy was
> > > frozen at the time the Debian LXC package itself was broken. Its very
> > > unfortunate that LXC on Wheezy is broken because its maintainer has
> > > clearly put a *lot* of effort in the package and now *normal* Debian
> > > users cannot enjoy this great technology for years to come.   
> > 
> > Is the issue you're talking about reported as a bug in the Debian BTS?  I've
> > just checked http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=lxc;dist=unstable
> > but couldn't find anything which matches.
> > 
> 
> For Wheezy it's this bug:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680469
> 
> Already solved, but not in time for the release-freeze.

I see, thanks.  The initial submitter gave this bug Severity: normal.  Do you
feel this bug makes lxc unusable, or mostly so?  If there's agreement on that,
we could try to make a proposed update for the lxc package in wheezy.  See also
http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt .

Alternatively, a paragraph could be added to the wheeze release notes.  Perhaps
the workaround with ssh as mentioned in the bugreport could be listed there.  I
don't use lxc myself, so a draft text would be very welcome.  I myself can add
such text to the release notes at
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#package-specific-issues .

Groeten,

Joost

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