On Sat, 2024-02-10 at 19:40 -0500, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > As the person who has packaged podman for sid, I'm afraid I have to point > out that the "fun" doesn't end here. In addition to podman, you'll also be > looking at backporting: > > - runc (potentially crun, which may or may not be easier) > - conmon > - aardvark/netavark (alternatively, passt/pasta for user-space networking) Thanks for that additional information to take into consideration! > But as Matthias said, most of the work is fairly mechanical. > > It is the sheer amount of packages that would also need to be kept > uptodate in backports that keeps me from updating the package in backports. > But, if we found enough interested and reliable contributors, it is doable. > And also quite straightforward to do if we can agree to maintain "backport" > branches in the git repositories on salsa, and keep some discipline in > keeping them up to date. Yes, following DEP14 and making a "debian/bookworm-backports" branch works pretty well in my experience. > what do you think? I personally don't use podman, so I don't have any direct motivation to see it backported. But I do remember the difficulty sometimes of finding a DD who was willing and available to sponsor uploads, and I'm certainly willing to help out in that regard! Mathias
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