Hey Mathias, Mathias Gibbens <gibmat@debian.org> wrote on 01/04/2024 at 03:58:36+0200: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for 29EEE2D6ECF442F9 created at 2024-04-01T03:58:36+0200 using RSA]] > 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
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature