[pkg-lxc-devel] LXC in Bookworm

[Mathias Gibbens]

Hi Mason,

On Tue, 2023-05-16 at 11:11 -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> I was dismayed to see that a conflict between dnsmasq and systemd might lead
> to LXC leaving Debian for Bookworm, and I wanted to offer potential options.

  I can confidently say that lxc won't be removed from bookworm, as
it's a core backend for autopkgtest, among other uses. And the bug for
dnsmasq was just downgraded in severity, so the autorm's are gone.

> So I wonder if the dnsmasq Depends: could move to lxc-net itself, or if
> it's worth including notes on how to set up networking in lxc-net and not
> even have that maintain a Depends: on dnsmasq.

[snip]

> ...and it seems like bridge-utils, iptables, and iproute2 might also be
> valid targets to remove from Depends, under the same notion. But dnsmasq is
> the one that's a threat right now.

  This could be a reasonable change to make, but not right before we
reach the bookworm full freeze in 8 days. Could you open a bug
specifically about moving some of the Depends to a (potential) lxc-net
binary package? We can come back and reevaluate this once trixie
development starts. (Disclaimer -- I haven't looked into other side
effects of shifting dependencies.)

Mathias
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