Hi Faidon,
On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 4:37:14 AM AEDT Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> 2) upgrading both nomad-driver-podman and podman to their latest
> upstream releases. These are seemingly compatible with each other, but
> breaking one particular use case, which while niche, happens to be
> unfortunately the maintainer's primary use case.
>
> IMHO option (2) is the reasonable choice here, and one that benefits the
> most users across the board. It sucks for Dmitry, I get that; but I
> don't see how option (1) would work. It means that we'll get stuck on an
> older stack, with no end date in sight.
>
> The fact that as has been mentioned in this thread a) bullseye is around
> the corner b) nomad-driver-podman isn't even in testing right now, c)
> podman itself is a much more popular package than nomad-driver-podman
> (or nomad for that matter), are all very strong points in favor of
> option (2), but are all *on top* of the original point -- again, IMHO.
Good reasoning and, I admit, you've almost convinced me.
However, release or not release, it is bad to break things in "testing"
and "unstable". We do have users that rely on those suites, myself included.
Also consider the discouragement factor. Me, maintainer of podman, nomad,
nomad-driver-podman as well as their countless dependency packages,
is at the verge of saying "whatever" and stop caring or even walk away
from the mess since the moment when technology become useless to me.
Too bad I've invested so much time stabilising it if "release concerns"
require me to break it...
I'll think more about all this.
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