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image deprecation warnings or notifications #2936
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Would be nice if it can also point to a newer image (if available), e.g. base => ubuntu, both on index.docker.io (link perhaps) and when pulling with |
@samalba @kencochrane It looks like there's a deprecation notice for the |
+1 |
+1. As a new user to Docker, I have just lost a couple of hours this afternoon because I wasn't aware that the base image was deprecated. Having a deprecation notice when docker was pulling the image would have helped a lot. |
@aaronlehmann @stevvooe This is very old issue. Do you think anything can be done on docker side and worth it? |
Doesn't sound worth it to me. |
Closing it then for now. |
Some Docker users have found documentation on the Internet which still hasn't been updated to reflect the fact that the
base
image is being deprecated and that theubuntu
images should be used instead. Some other users have been using Docker sincebase
was the image the docs were recommending as the standard image.There should be a way to let users know an image has been deprecated. Here are some options on how users could be warned or notified that a particular image is being deprecated :
docker pull
which only checks if an image (or any of its layers) is marked for deprecation (could be used together with 1 and 2)This issue supersedes #1379.
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