[Bug 509647] [NEW] [MIR] lxc

[Stéphane Graber]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: lxc

Hello,

I'd like lxc (userspace tools for the Linux Containers) to be moved to
main as was discussed in the specification and the session at the last
UDS: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-
contextualization

The package is currently in universe, was recently updated (0.6.3 to
0.6.4), Debian relationship is good and the Debian maintainer is active.
Upstream is also very responsive (received answers to some question, a
few hours after I sent them), the project itself is mainly developed by
IBM France.

The reason for inclusion is that LXC is supported in the current Lucid
kernel, is considered a good alternative to the OpenVZ patch we used to
have in the previous LTS and Lucid's libvirt will support it. The lxc
tools aren't required if one wants to use libvirt, though it was
considered useful to have them in main nevertheless as some users don't
necessarily want to use libvirt to manage their containers.

There's currently no real bugs (outside wishlist) open on Launchpad,
Debian has two bug reports open that seem to be packaging related. There
is no known security issues (checked for CVE and secunia).

Binary package only depends on the libc6, build-deps are "cdbs,
debhelper (>= 7), autotools-dev, libcap-dev, linux-libc-dev", so nothing
fancy or outside main here.

I went through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements
and everything seems to be ok with that package being moved to Main.

Please feel free to ask for any additional information you may need.

** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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