The problem is podman in the apt repos are very old. Last time I checked, Podman was on v5, where debian was on v2 something.
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Also yes, podman v4 on bookwarm was famously useless in many cases and because of either libc or kernel (iirc) you could not even install v5 effortlessly.
I like Debian and I like podman but putting this as a usefule nice experience (up until trixie released) is just weird framing.