Bug#1008291: ITP: distrobox -- Another tool for containerized command line environments on Linux
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Michel Alexandre Salim <michel@michel-slm.name>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : distrobox
Version : 1.2.14
Upstream Author : Luca Di Maio <luca.dimaio1@gmail.com>
* URL : https://distrobox.privatedns.org/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Bash
Description : Another tool for containerized command line environments on Linux
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and
forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution
you’re more comfortable with.
- usefulness
Much more flexible than Toolbx, which inspires it:
https://fedoramagazine.org/toolbx-a-developers-new-best-friend/ -
Toolbx requires specialized containers which currently are only
available for Fedora.
- not a dependency for another package
- I use it everyday, for compatibility testing on different distributions
and releases
- comparison with similar packages
- more flexible than Toolbx
- this wraps Podman and Docker and preconfigure the containers (e.g.
giving them home directory access, installing the shell you use on
the host on the container too) so it's much easier to use
- maintenance
- no packaging team seems to match, so I plan to maintain this
individually. I'm new to Debian packaging (coming from Fedora where
I'm the equivalent of a Debian Developer), so will be using
https://mentors.debian.net/. I do have more packages to ITP, but
want to start small with a package where the upstream author has
expressed an interest in getting this packaged: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/153
- yes, I will need a sponsor
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