Any plans to add minideb support?

[davesque]

I recently ran across Bitnami's minideb image: https://github.com/bitnami/minideb

Any reason or plans to add support for this as an alternative to alpine?

[yosifkit]

It would have to be an official image in order for an official image to be built FROM it.

No official images can be derived from, or depend on, non-official images

- https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/tree/20ff8e7dc48bd583ceef76a9e847b53764a4ffb1#repeatability

The Debian images already have slim variants that exclude things like docs, man pages, and locales. See also debuerreotype, the reproducible, snapshot-based Debian rootfs builder that is used to build the Debian images, and its slimify script.

$ docker images bitnami/minideb:stretch
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
bitnami/minideb     stretch             679c75d5b023        30 hours ago        53.6MB
$ docker images debian:stretch-slim
REPOSITORY          TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
debian              stretch-slim        e004ce20eaba        11 days ago         55.2MB

We are swapping the slim images of python to be from the slim variants of Debian rather than regular ones (#233).

[davesque]

Fair enough. Thanks!