On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 09:47:42AM -0400, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Package: debci > Version: 3.14.1 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Hello maintainers, > > I'm a little concerned this is some kind of obvious PEBKAC error, but I > couldn't > find anything in the documentation that immediately jumped out at me. > > Following the instructions in the FAQ for running debci tests, I get a failure > to build the lxc container with the following error: > > # sudo debci setup > I: testbed setup [unstable/amd64/lxc]: starting at Tue Mar 31 09:45:21 EDT > 2026 > debian-distro-info: unknown distribution series `unstable' > ERROR: file /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-debian not found, provided by > package lxc-templates > > This is after a fresh installation of lxc on the machine with no prior lxc or > debci configuration.
The actual error is this: > ERROR: file /usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-debian not found, provided by > package lxc-templates You need lxc-templates. It used to be recommended by lxc, but it's deprecated upstream and we never managed to migrate away from it. I will leave this open because we need to document this requirement and/or check for it at runtime.
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