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

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Hey Mathias,

Mathias Gibbens <gibmat at debian.org> wrote on 01/04/2024 at 03:58:36+0200:

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>   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.

I'd like to thank you for all the work you've put through to make LXD
(and indirectly Incus) and distrobuilder available in the Debian
ecosystem.

-- 
PEB
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