On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 13:05 +0200, Sjors Gielen wrote: > There's a better solution: Rob has a fixed template that does not use > live-debconfig, and he said he is willing to support it. The release > team suggested the solution that a non-maintainer upload is done with > the working template in it. Once this is done, a bug can be opened with > release.d.o that explains the situation; if this happens in time, the > fix may be in the first Wheezy point release. That would make the lxc > package significantly more useful. (live-debconfig is already in > Jessie, so this is not relevant there.) > > Rob, are you willing to pick this up? It would come down to replacing > the templates in debian/local, then upping the version to something > like 0.8.0~rc1-8+deb7u1-wheezy1. Once you've got a new source package, > we can open a release.d.o bug. I'm not a Debian maintainer myself, and > my own experience here is limited to creating packages that are used > internally and never uploaded to the archive, but if needed I'll help > you if I can. >
Hi Sjors, Daniel and release-folks, I am still willing to support my alternative Debian container template. I have been using this template for two years now on different processor architectures (armel/i386/amd64) and it seems to be bug-free. If bugs are reported I will try to fix them, but I will not add extra functions to the template. Unfortunately I know very little about packaging and how the release process works. I hope to learn about these things some time in the future. At the moment I am busy with a project to enhance Linux security a little bit (using the technology behind LXC: kernel namespaces and cgroups). It's early days and the project needs my full attention so I don't want to spend time on packaging. A LXC template is just a script to create a rootfs. It's no problem to have multiple Debian templates in the package, so maybe the solution is simple: just add my template to the package? Kind regards, Rob. http://freedomboxblog.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
