docker is already the name of a package in the Ubuntu package list, unfortunately. I'm not sure whether PPAs can introduce packages with names colliding with standard packages. So it might have to be a different name.

According to /deb/debian/control, the package name is currently dotcloud-docker.

And we are going to change it to lxc-docker :)

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Jérôme Petazzoni
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According to /deb/debian/controlhttps://github.com/dotcloud/docker/blob/0e0d76b7acc8d75f518a91d026a57d6b8410d5f3/deb/debian/control,
the package name is currently dotcloud-docker.

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I saw the following email this morning. copying here for posterity

Accepted:
OK: lxc-docker_1.orig.tar.gz
OK: lxc-docker_1.debian.tar.gz
OK: lxc-docker_1.dsc
-> Component: main Section: misc

lxc-docker (1) precise; urgency=low

• Initial release

https://launchpad.net/~dotcloud/+archive/lxc-docker
You are receiving this email because you are the uploader of the above
PPA package.

Hi, I'm a Debian Developer. I'm willing to sponsor this. [email protected]

Thanks!

I'm making this issue the official place to discuss packaging of docker on Ubuntu. Packaging on Debian is discussed on #251.

I changed the title to make this more clear.

Ubuntu is sync'd from Debian. Getting it into Debian gets it into Ubuntu by doing a `requestsync'. I can also help with that; I'm an Ubuntu member too.

I had been working on this somewhat out-of-band from the rest of the participants here, not realizing this issue was logged. I have a working package that passes lintian in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~synack/+archive/docker, the source repository organized in a way that git-buildpackage recognizes, is available here: https://github.com/synack/docker (with the debian and upstream branches respectively)

Aside from needing to be renamed to lxc-docker, the biggest issue is that it essentially replaces the Makefile with a patch. Not really sure what the right approach to fix that is.

@synack: We are using /packaging to make multi distro packaging clean and modularized. For Ubuntu is /packaging/ubuntu. Take a look at the packaging branch.

With @mzdaniel's last pull request #421, I feel comfortable I will be able to publish .debs to our PPA at each release.

Next steps:

1. For new issues or requests related to packaging/ubuntu, please open a new issue

2. How do we make this an official package? :)

Like I said, through Debian with requestsync.

Yeah, sorry I meant "let's make a separate issue to track this". Thanks again for offering help with that part.