Re: Bug#972674: ITP: toolbox -- Unprivileged container development environment
Thanks Raphael for highlighting Hayley's work.
On 11/30/20 4:22 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Hayley Hughes wrote:
>> * URL : <https://github.com/containers/toolbox>
>>
>> Toolbox is a tool that offers a familiar package based environment for
>> developing and debugging software that runs fully unprivileged using Podman.
> […]
>> I have already made some progress which can be found on salsa
>> (<https://salsa.debian.org/huggles/toolbox>) for my own benefit (please feel
>> free to review it and suggest changes) and I thought that it might be an
>> idea to make an attempt to properly package it and add it to the Debian
>> archives.
>>
>> Will be keen to hear what others think.
>
> I was looking for the package and I'm glad that you are working on
> packaging it.
>
> I have put in CC Reinhard Tartler and Dmitry Smirnov that are the
> Uploaders of podman and buildah, maybe they would be willing to sponsor
> your package and integrate it in the pkg-go team.
I looked at the upstream README and over the packaging, which seems clean to me.
Curiously, while written in go, it doesn't use the dh_golang debhelper but
the upstream meson build system. That's a first for me, but (probably) not concerning.
I'd be happy to upload the package on your behalf.
Would you be happy to maintain the packaging under the golang-team umbrella or would you have
other preferences? Having it in the debian/ namespace on salsa would work for me
equally well.
> As for the discussion about the package name, podman-toolbox or
> container-toolbox looks good to me.
I agree with Raphael, the currently chosen names are too generic for integration
into a general-purpose distribution such as Debian. I'd propose:
src:golang-github-containers-toolbox to produce toolbox-podman (or podman-toolbox)
[currently, the packaging uses src:toolbox and toolbox as binary package name]
Best,
-rt
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