Your message dated Mon, 25 May 2026 17:55:41 -0400 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Fixed in Podman 5.8.2+ds1-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #1130252, regarding podman: build --squash is not squashing the built images to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---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) $ podman build -t nosquash ./ $ podman build --squash -t squash ./ $ podman build --squash-all -t squashall ./ $ skopeo inspect containers-storage:localhost/nosquash | jq '.Layers | length' 23 $ skopeo inspect containers-storage:localhost/squash | jq '.Layers | length' 23 $ skopeo inspect containers-storage:localhost/squashall | jq '.Layers | length' 1 $ podman images | head REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE localhost/squashall latest 539639a5c074 5 minutes ago 1.07 GB localhost/squash latest 8b6e819c2b11 6 minutes ago 1.08 GB localhost/nosquash latest 8b6e819c2b11 6 minutes ago 1.08 GB -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.16.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages podman depends on: ii conmon 2.1.12-4 ii golang-github-containers-common 0.66.0+ds2-3 ii init-system-helpers 1.69~deb13u1 ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u1 ii libgpgme45 2.0.1-2 ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-7 ii libsubid5 1:4.17.4-2 ii netavark 1.14.0-2 ii runc 1.1.15+ds1-2+b4 Versions of packages podman recommends: ii buildah 1.42.1+ds1-2 ii ca-certificates 20250419 ii containers-storage 1.57.2+ds1-1+b2 ii criu 4.1.1-1 ii dbus-user-session 1.16.2-2 ii libcriu2 4.1.1-1 ii passt 0.0~git20250503.587980c-2 ii slirp4netns 1.2.1-1.1 ii tini 0.19.0-3+b5 ii uidmap 1:4.17.4-2 Versions of packages podman suggests: ii containernetworking-plugins 1.1.1+ds1-3+b17 ii docker-compose 2.26.1-4 ii iptables 1.8.11-2 -- no debconf information -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ [email protected] 🔗 jmtd.net
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 5.8.2+ds1-1 Hello, This bug was reported against Podman 5.7.0, where the --squash parameter was found to be non-functional. Podman version 5.8.2+ds1-1 is now available in Debian unstable. This version includes the fixes for the squashing behavior. Thank you for the report and for following up with tests. Regards, -rt
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