Help wanted: distribution packages

[AkihiroSuda]

Help wanted to make nerdctl available on apt-get, dnf, etc.

• [X] Alpine https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.17/community/x86_64/nerdctl
• [X] ALT Linux https://git.altlinux.org/gears/n/nerdctl.git
• [X] Amazon Linux https://docs.aws.amazon.com/linux/al2023/release-notes/all-packages-AL2023.3.html
• [X] ArchLinux https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nerdctl/
• [ ] Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1030928
• [ ] Fedora
• [X] FreeBSD https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/nerdctl
• [X] Gentoo https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-containers/nerdctl
• [X] Nix https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/by-name/ne/nerdctl/package.nix
  • [ ] Outdated. Needs to be updated to v2.x.x.
• [X] openSUSE https://software.opensuse.org/package/nerdctl
• [ ] Ubuntu
• [X] Void Linux https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/nerdctl

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• [ ] appimage
• [X] Homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/n/nerdctl.rb
• [ ] flatpak
• [ ] snap

[suyanhanx]

~~I'm doing this for Debian and Ubuntu.~~ Debian is temporarily unable to continue due to dependency management issues.

[metux]

I'm on it for Devuan (but should be applicable for Debian, too).

[fwilhe2]

Hi @suyanhanx, @metux I'm curious if there is any update on deb packaging. I found this bug which is from feb2023, so it looks like there is no new trace of someone working on this since then.

Can someone elaborate on the (build) dependency issues? I'm not that proficient in debian packaging, but I'm eager to learn about what makes this hard (and what potential solutions might be).