Re: Intent to add some container tools to Debian
Hi Qian,
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:20 PM Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> I plan to add some container tools to Debian below. There is a Ubuntu
> PPA available to have peek but it may need lots of cleanup to unbundle
> to fit into Debian policies.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~projectatomic/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages
>
> Since I have just returned from tired from Debian 10-year ago, I would
> appreciate if there are some pointers for best practices to get those
> included in Debian unstable as soon as possible.
Welcome back!
And yes, you need to unbundle the vendors(as much as you can), making
every library a single Debian package.
For Go packaging, you can read the team page first,
https://go-team.pages.debian.net/. Then you'll find the recommended
tool, dh-make-golang, which helps a lot when creating new packages.
IMHO, the container ecosystem in Debian is not healthy... It needs to
package *a lot of* dependencies and a lot of work! I don't expect you
can finish them very soon...
But we do need more container related tools to be packaged!
--
Shengjing Zhu
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