Subject: bug#583: lxc-templates: Devuan template for LXC

From: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 09:06:20 +0900 (JST)

Hi Mark,

> Thanks for this. However Devuan doesn't fork any of the lxc pacakges and uses
> Debian's pacakges directly without recompilation. This is probably best included
> by submitting upstream, either to Debian or perhaps better
> https://linuxcontainers.org/.

I tend to disagree. Because

* linuxcontainers.org dropped support of templates other then "download".
   They actively maintain only the "download" template.
* Now each distro. seems having responsibility to maintain its own version of
   template, if that distro. is not satisfied with "download" template.
* Debian package maintainers maintains the Debian template, see
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/lxc-templates/lxc-templates_3.0.4-5_changelog
* "download" template only provides the limited choices of Devuan as
# lxc-create -n test -t download -- -d devuan
Setting up the GPG keyring
Downloading the image index

---
DIST	RELEASE	ARCH	VARIANT	BUILD
---
devuan	ascii	amd64	default	20210530_11:50
devuan	ascii	arm64	default	20210530_12:22
devuan	ascii	armel	default	20210530_12:07
devuan	ascii	armhf	default	20210530_12:22
devuan	ascii	i386	default	20210530_11:50
devuan	ascii	ppc64el	default	20210530_11:50
devuan	beowulf	amd64	default	20210530_11:50
devuan	beowulf	arm64	default	20210530_12:07
devuan	beowulf	armel	default	20210530_12:22
devuan	beowulf	armhf	default	20210530_11:50
devuan	beowulf	i386	default	20210530_11:50
devuan	beowulf	ppc64el	default	20210530_11:50
---

By the above observation, in my view,

(1) Attaching "upstream" to this issue is inappropriate. This is not an upstream issue.
(2) The question is whether or not Devuan is satisfied with "download"
template as above. If yes, attaching "wontfix" tag or closure of this issue is
appropriate.

Best regards, Ryutaroh