On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 08:59:26AM +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote: > On 2024-04-07 15:28, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > Assistance required with maintaining the singularity-container package. > > I am not offering help with singularity-container, but do you by any chance > know why apptainer is not packaged for Debian? I cannot find a wnpp bug. I am lazy to find references right now, but you should be able to find it in debian-hpc and debian-devel archives. If I don't miss anything this was the sequence of events: 1) While updating singularity-container, Andreas created a repo for apptainer on salsa. 2) The goal at that time was to get a mobility compute (either apptainer or singularity) up and running 3) singularity and apptainer codebases are in sync so as per my understanding there's no real point in having *both* - here's a brief discussion about it[1] My opinion: It does not make a lot of sense to package apptainer as well. Although the latter is "community" maintained, the codebases for sylabs/singularity and apptainer are in close sync at most times which also means they keep inheriting CVEs from each other too. As a result one may not be able to maintain apptainer well in stable release either unless they have: a) Good/Great go programming skills b) ability to deal with CVEs and backports I'd like to just link to a similar discussion thread about the same rather than repeating the points[2] and here's what upstream says[3]. What do you think? [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-hpc/2022/08/msg00021.html [2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/01/msg00078.html [3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/01/msg00080.html Best, Nilesh
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