[pkg-lxc-devel] syncing lxcfs from Debian to Ubuntu

[Evgeni Golov]

Ohai,

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 01:51:20PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > That being said, we may be able to convince our Debian friends to turn
> > > this into:
> > > 
> > >  systemd | cgroupfs-mount | cgroup-lite
> > > 
> > > Which should then work fine everywhere and avoid us having to carry that
> > > delta for another 3 years.
> > 
> > But that only would work, if Debian had cgroup-lite, which it does not.
> 
> Hm?  I thought that '| cgroup-lite' was fine if cgroup-lite did not
> exist?
> 
> (I'm showing my naivité I'm sure)

Not in Debian, at least [1].
But jamessan in #debian-devel had a good idea.
We could use ${lxcfs:Depends} in the control file and generate that var
dynamically in d/rules, checking whether we build for Ubuntu or Debian
(using dpkg-vendor / /usr/share/dpkg/vendor.mk).

How does that sound to you?