vm-builder

Peter Matulis peter.matulis at canonical.com
Tue Dec 10 20:30:08 UTC 2013


On 12/10/2013 12:13 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Years ago it was decided that vm-builder would be deprecated in favor
> of alternatives (cloud images, live-build, and some others).  This was
> dicussed at at least two separate physical UDSes.  However, it was
> never actually dropped from the archive.  As a result people kept
> using it despite it being considered deprecated and no longer
> maintained.  This is resulting in people losing data and time, i.e.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vm-builder/+bug/1090223
> 
> I intend to open a bug to ask that it be removed from the archive
> for trusty.  If anyone objects, please reply here.

What is the state of documentation for 'live-build and some others'?  We
shouldn't assume everyone has been cloudified.

~pmatulis





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