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