** Also affects: lxc (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: lxc (Ubuntu Jammy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: lxc (Ubuntu Mantic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  liblxc-dev was built with LXC_DEVEL=1 in Ubuntu 22.04 and later
  releases

Status in lxc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in lxc source package in Jammy:
  New
Status in lxc source package in Mantic:
  New
Status in lxc source package in Noble:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  LXC 5.0.0 was built with LXC_DEVEL=1 set for Jammy. But for release
  build we should have LXC_DEVEL=0.

  LXC_DEVEL is a variable that appears in the /usr/include/lxc/version.h
  and then can be (and actually it is) used by other projects to detect
  if liblxc-dev is a development build or stable.

  Having LXC_DEVEL=1 makes problems for the users who want to build projects 
those are depend on liblxc
  from source (for example, LXD, go-lxc: 
https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/12420).

  Q: Why it was not a problem for so long?
  A: Because LXC API was stable for a long time, but recently we have extended 
liblxc API (https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/4260) and dependant package go-lxc 
was updated too (https://github.com/lxc/go-lxc/pull/166).
  This change was developed properly to be backward compatible with the old 
versions of liblxc. But, there is a problem. If LXC_DEVEL=1 then the macro 
check VERSION_AT_LEAST 
(https://github.com/lxc/go-lxc/blob/ccae595aa49e779f7ecc9250329967aa546acd31/lxc-binding.h#L7)
 is disabled. That's why we should *not* have LXC_DEVEL=1 for *any* release 
build of LXC.

  [ Test Plan ]

  Install liblxc-dev package and check /usr/include/lxc/version.h file
  LXC_DEVEL should be 0

  [ Where problems could occur ]

  Theoretically, build of a software which depends on liblxc-dev may start to 
fail
  if it assumes that LXC_DEVEL is 1.

  [ Other Info ]

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