Hi Rob, Daniel, release team, (Please CC me on replies, I'm not in the release team list)
Now that Wheezy is Stable, it's time to fix container creation for the point release. As of current stable, most of the LXC userland tools are working, but the container creation templates still rely on live-debconfig which is not in Wheezy. I've asked the release team and it is highly unlikely that live-debconfig will be allowed in Wheezy. A solution would be to add it to wheezy-backports and require backports for using LXC, but that doesn't seem elegant to me. 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. Thanks, Sjors
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