See below for a problem that has come up on the freedombox list.
It seems that this bug should have been marked at least serious and
probably RC all along. This is quite an important package to have
working as it enables a lot of other stuff. And there is already a fix
available. However that fix is mixed in with a pile of others in
0.8.0~rc1-9 and 0.8.0~rc1-10, so what would be needed would be a patch
for the current 0.8.0~rc1-8+deb7u1 with just this fix in it for
consideration of the release team. Looking at the diffs between these
versions it does not look difficult to produce and I can do that if
it'll be useful.
I've confirmed that this problem still exists in the current wheezy
version (for wheezy containers as well as sid ones).
Does the team agree that this is an RC issue (it looks like one to
me)? and given a patch fixing only this issue is this something the
release team would consider eligible for wheezy? (Yes, I know it
would have been better if this had been marked RC 6 months ago).
----- Forwarded message from Rob van der Hoeven <robvanderhoe...@ziggo.nl> -----
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:56:25 +0100
From: Rob van der Hoeven <robvanderhoe...@ziggo.nl>
To: Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb-freedom...@mdcc.cx>
Cc: 680...@bugs.debian.org,
"freedombox-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org"
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Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] status of lxc in debian wheezy (was: Re:
jails in Debian?)
List-Id: Discussion of the Freedom Box project
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> > For Wheezy it's this bug:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680469
> >
> > Already solved, but not in time for the release-freeze.
>
> I see, thanks. The initial submitter gave this bug Severity: normal. Do you
> feel this bug makes lxc unusable, or mostly so? If there's agreement on that,
> we could try to make a proposed update for the lxc package in wheezy. See
> also
> http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt .
>
I think most Debian users want Debian LXC containers. This is not
possible in the upcoming Wheezy release. So yes, i think this bug
severely cripples LXC. Already contacted its maintainer about this, but
i had the impression that he had tried but could do nothing about the
situation. Also put a request on the release mailing list to temporarily
un-freeze LXC so the fix could be in Wheezy (Got no reply there).
> Alternatively, a paragraph could be added to the wheeze release notes.
Most users will try LXC a long time after they installed Wheezy when
they have forgotten about the release notes (if they had read the
release notes at all). So a release note will not solve the problem.
People expect that programs that are in a Debian release are tested and
functioning. I think its bad to ship LXC in the state that it is
currently in. Solve the problem or remove LXC from Wheezy, do not let
users wondering why LXC does not work on their machine.
Rob.
http://freedomboxblog.nl
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