deprecate and stop packaging?

[Jes Slow]

This package docker.io is (as are most packages) obsolete, and the official instructions (https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/#set-up-the-repository) recommend removing it.

Given the pace that docker is moving out and the other things on Ubuntu's plate, why not just drop the package entirely? It just causes more confusion than necessary to exist.

See also the discussion at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45023363/what-is-docker-io-in-relation-to-docker-ce-and-docker-ee and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27978324/why-install-docker-on-ubuntu-should-be-sudo-apt-get-install-docker-io

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Jes,
this is a topic that actually is discussed between Ubuntu / Docker itself and other parties.
There is no clear outcome yet, but things are going on (slowly and quite a while already).

Not sure what to put the bug in, AFAIK the discussions already happening are not related to a bug - so I can't dup you to something where you can track it.

Most likely this could be considered a feature request (well taking away one).
I'll subscribe mwhudson, maybe he has a more up-to-date state.

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

I added it to the sprint topics again

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

As another datapoint, the docker.io package serves as a build dependency to many container-related packages in the archive. Dropping the package would in the short-term mean breaking all packages that use this code (nomad, buildah, podman, to name a few). In the long term, it might cause increased vendoring inside the archive, making security support harder.

[Philippe Cloutier (chealer-gmail)]

Can you clarify in what way this package is obsolete?

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

This bug is quite old and in the past we had some issue in keeping docker.io up-to-date following upstream closely. Nowadays, the situation is different and we have been able to provide almost always the latest upstream version to our users across all the supported releases.

Since this is not a problem anymore, I'll be setting the Status to Invalid and unsubscribe ubuntu-server from this bug.