Hi everyone, I see a lot of comments and questions on the state of packaging for Docker in various distros. Recently we started working closely with maintainers

Hi everyone, I see a lot of comments and questions on the state of packaging for Docker in various distros. Recently we started working closely with maintainers of major distros, and making sure we made their life as easy as possible, while continuing to ship our own upstream builds on average once a week. This required a few compromises - for example supporting dynamically linked builds of docker, which introduces some complexity in the codebase but saves everyone a lot drama and quasi-religious flamewars on distro mailing lists. Sometimes you have to pick your battles... The result, I think, is that the availability and quality of docker builds on various distro has improved a lot. This is in great part thanks to the hard work of Tianon Gravi (https://github.com/tianon https://github.com/tianon) who handles PR (Packagers Relations) for Docker and is doing a phenomenal job. The packagers we work with are particularly nice and awesome too, special thanks to Paul Tagliamonte from Debian who has been super supportive and patient with us as we slowly got our act together. More recently the Fedora team has been really receptive too. Lastly thanks to Proppy from the Google team for contributing these docs!