Bug#768073: ITP: lxd - The Linux Container Daemon - LXC team take over ITP?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 24 September 2016 at 05:25, Anthony Fok  wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> (with added Cc to the Debian Go Team as well as
>
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:52:15 +0100 Jonathan Dowland 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that an ITP that has been inactive this long could be taken over
> by
> > another interested party without it being a hijack, all things
> considered.
> > (I think some QA script might move it to RFP soon anyway).
> >
> > Adnan, how's it going?
> >
> > There's a pkg-lxc team already. Since this package is/will be very
> inter-related to
> > LXC, perhaps it should be developed in that team? Team CCed. Are they
> interested?
> > Are you in pkg-lxc already?
> >
> > What's the state of the Ubuntu package? Could that make a good starting
> point? How
> > much hacking before that would be suitable for an experimental upload at
> least?
>
> I took a quick look at the package source obtained via:
>
> dget -u http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lxd/lxd_2.
> 2-0ubuntu1.dsc
>
> This Ubuntu package is being maintained as an official Ubuntu package
> by Canonical's Stéphane Graber, *the* LXC and LXD project leader
> himself!
> As such, the package has received much love, very professionally
> packaged and very mature.
>
> E: Unable to locate package golang-any-shared-dev
> E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3-dev
> E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2-dev
> E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2-dev
> E: Unable to locate package golang-petname-dev
>
> golang-any-shared-dev can be ignored for now: it can simply be
> replaced by "golang-any" or similar in Debian.
> But wait, Ubuntu's Go actually has shared library support!?  What!?
> How?  Wow!  Amazing stuff!  Definitely news to me.
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju-core/+bug/1508122
> and the patch by Michael Hudson-Doyle.  Okay, Cc'ing Michael too.  :-)
>

Heh, yep, finally! I'd like this stuff to land in Debian too but let's see
how it goes in Ubuntu for a while first. Probably something for after
stretch.

Cheers,
mwh

Bug#768073: [pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#768073: ITP: lxd - The Linux Container Daemon - LXC team take over ITP?

[Evgeni Golov]

Ohai,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:25:15AM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote:
> > I think that an ITP that has been inactive this long could be taken over by
> > another interested party without it being a hijack, all things considered.
> > (I think some QA script might move it to RFP soon anyway).
> >
> > Adnan, how's it going?
> >
> > There's a pkg-lxc team already. Since this package is/will be very 
> > inter-related to
> > LXC, perhaps it should be developed in that team? Team CCed. Are they 
> > interested?
> > Are you in pkg-lxc already?

Yes, Adnan is in pkg-lxc and technically the team is interested (given it falls 
into the same software stack) to have the whole stack available in Debian.
But I must admit I personally have no use for it and not enough Go knowledge to 
package it properly.

> > What's the state of the Ubuntu package? Could that make a good starting 
> > point? How
> > much hacking before that would be suitable for an experimental upload at 
> > least?

Yes, taking the Ubuntu package is a start is what we did with the other LXC 
components
and that worked out pretty well so far.

> I took a quick look at the package source obtained via:
> 
> dget -u 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lxd/lxd_2.2-0ubuntu1.dsc
...
> So, I guess the first step would be to package
> golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3, golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2,
> golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2 and golang-petname, or simply grab these
> existing Ubuntu packages, make a few minor changes to debian/control
> and debian/changelog, file ITPs to the Debian BTS, and finally upload
> them to Debian.
> 
> I do not see too many hurdles after that, at least I hope not.  ;-)

IIRC that's similar to what Adnan told me the last time we talked about LXD.

> Also, should the Debian lxd be team-maintained by the pkg-lxc team or
> the pkg-go team?  What do you think?

Whatever works? :-)
Stack-wise it's more pkg-lxc, language-wise pkg-go...
I'd guess it will need coordination to both, LXC and other Go uploads at times 
too.

Greets
Evgeni

Bug#768073: ITP: lxd - The Linux Container Daemon - LXC team take over ITP?

[Anthony Fok]

Hello all!

(with added Cc to the Debian Go Team as well as

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:52:15 +0100 Jonathan Dowland  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that an ITP that has been inactive this long could be taken over by
> another interested party without it being a hijack, all things considered.
> (I think some QA script might move it to RFP soon anyway).
>
> Adnan, how's it going?
>
> There's a pkg-lxc team already. Since this package is/will be very 
> inter-related to
> LXC, perhaps it should be developed in that team? Team CCed. Are they 
> interested?
> Are you in pkg-lxc already?
>
> What's the state of the Ubuntu package? Could that make a good starting 
> point? How
> much hacking before that would be suitable for an experimental upload at 
> least?

I took a quick look at the package source obtained via:

dget -u 
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lxd/lxd_2.2-0ubuntu1.dsc

This Ubuntu package is being maintained as an official Ubuntu package
by Canonical's Stéphane Graber, *the* LXC and LXD project leader
himself!
As such, the package has received much love, very professionally
packaged and very mature.

E: Unable to locate package golang-any-shared-dev
E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3-dev
E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2-dev
E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2-dev
E: Unable to locate package golang-petname-dev

golang-any-shared-dev can be ignored for now: it can simply be
replaced by "golang-any" or similar in Debian.
But wait, Ubuntu's Go actually has shared library support!?  What!?
How?  Wow!  Amazing stuff!  Definitely news to me.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju-core/+bug/1508122
and the patch by Michael Hudson-Doyle.  Okay, Cc'ing Michael too.  :-)

So, I guess the first step would be to package
golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3, golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2,
golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2 and golang-petname, or simply grab these
existing Ubuntu packages, make a few minor changes to debian/control
and debian/changelog, file ITPs to the Debian BTS, and finally upload
them to Debian.

I do not see too many hurdles after that, at least I hope not.  ;-)

And since the Ubuntu lxd package is the upstream here, I like to think
of the Debian lxd package as the downstream derivative, so we will
likely always wait for Stéphane to release -0ubuntu1, then apply any
necessary patches required for Debian, and upload that as -1.  What do
you think?  :-)

Also, should the Debian lxd be team-maintained by the pkg-lxc team or
the pkg-go team?  What do you think?

Cheers,

Anthony