Control: tag -1 moreinfo upstream
On 2026-03-10 06:21, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
Package: podman
Version: 5.7.0+ds2-3
Severity: normal
podman has two squashing build parameters:
--squash
Squash all of the image's new layers into a single new layer;
any preexisting layers are not squashed.
--squash-all
Squash all of the new image's layers (including those inherited
from a base image) into a single new layer.
The '--squash' parameter doesn't work. Note from the below session
excerpt, the image checksum for '--squash' and '<nothing>' are
identical, and contain 23 layers.
Expected behaviour would be base image + 1. In this case base image has
22. (I can provide this container source if requested, but it's not
relevant)
Hello Jonathan,
Thank you for the detailed bug report regarding the squashing behavior
in Podman 5.7.0, and for your follow-up tests confirming the expected
behavior in version 5.8.0 on Fedora.
Version 5.8.0+ds1-1 is currently available in the experimental suite.
Could you please test this version against your container source and
report back to confirm if it resolves the issue on Debian?
Regards,
-rt
