Package: podman Version: 5.7.0+ds2-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
on older installs that use the boltdb metadata backend, podman outputs a nag message about migrating to the sqlite metadata backend: WARN[0000] The deprecated BoltDB database driver is in use. This driver will be removed in the upcoming Podman 6.0 release in mid 2026. It is advised that you migrate to SQLite to avoid issues when this occurs. Set SUPPRESS_BOLTDB_WARNING environment variable to remove this message. When researching how to go about such a migration, I was surprised that no actual migration method seems to exist short of deleting everything and starting from scratch [1]. That is very unsatisfactory for users with lots of containers that use volumes that are not explicitly bound to an existing file system location. Upstream does not really consider this to be their problem [1,2]. [1] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/podman-5-7-boltdb-to-sqlite- migration/171172 [2] https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/27628 -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.17.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages podman depends on: ii conmon 2.1.13+ds1-2 ii crun 1.21-3 ii golang-github-containers-common 0.66.0+ds2-3 ii init-system-helpers 1.69 ii libc6 2.41-12 ii libgpgme45 2.0.1-2 ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-8 ii libsubid5 1:4.18.0-2 ii netavark 1.16.1-3.1 Versions of packages podman recommends: ii buildah 1.42.1+ds1-2 ii ca-certificates 20250419 ii catatonit 0.2.1-2+b3 ii containers-storage 1.61.0+ds1-4 ii criu 4.2-1 ii dbus-user-session 1.16.2-2 ii libcriu2 4.2-1 ii passt 0.0~git20250919.623dbf6-1 ii slirp4netns 1.3.3-1 ii uidmap 1:4.18.0-2 Versions of packages podman suggests: ii containernetworking-plugins 1.1.1+ds1-3+b18 ii docker-compose 2.32.4-3 ii iptables 1.8.11-3 -- no debconf information
