Bug#1042989: ITP: Incus -- Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2023, Mathias Gibbens wrote:
>> On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 12:52 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> > I would really like to see incus in unstable/testing and even in
>> > bookworm-backports at some point.
>>
>> Given the large number of new/updated dependencies for Incus, it
>> would be a lot of work to properly prepare a release for bookworm-
>> backports once Incus gets into unstable. Not saying that it couldn't be
>> done, but I don't know if it would be worth the effort. If you would
>> like to use Incus on bookworm right now, probably the best approach
>> would be to install the package from Stéphane's repo:
>> https://github.com/zabbly/incus.
>
> If we want to run debusine on a DSA-managed servers, we need to have
> packages available on official Debian repositories, hence
> bookworm-backports as installing packages from testing/unstable is out of
> question. :-|
I agree with Mathias that having Incus in bookworm-backports requires
quite a bit of work. It's probably doable (although we'll have to assess
if that'd introduce tricky dependency conflicts), but perhaps having
some more folks helping with it would make it more feasible.
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