Dear Debian Backports maintainers,
Bonjour,
I am writing to request the backporting of Podman 5 to Debian 12 (Bookworm) backports.
Current situation:
Rationale:
Podman 5 offers significant improvements that would benefit Debian stable users:
As an example, with Podman 4.x, even if you pass CAP_NET_RAW capability to the container, slirp4netns will forcibly translate the container’s ICMP packets to UDP; the only workaround is to adjust to ping_group_range to a large range. Similarly, some capabilities like CAP_PERFMON are not correctly passed to the containers (that’s an issue in frigate containers to access the iGPU for image detection). These issues are known to be solved in Podman 5.
As many, I regularly work with containers, and I find these features extremely useful for development and deployment in small production environments. I guess other users in similar roles would benefit from access to Podman 5 while maintaining Debian 12's stability.
I’m happy to assist with testing or provide additional information if needed.
Thanks in advance,
Warm regards,
Romain
PS: pinning Podman to 5.2 from trixie would pull too many changes, such as an upgraded libc6.