[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#602807: Bug#602807:

[Guido Günther]

Hi Sergio,
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 02:18:28PM +0200, Sergio Rubio wrote:
> > Any chance somebody steps up to maintain this in Debian (longterm)?
> 
> Guido, thank you for your prompt reply.
> 
> I understand your concerns and the lack of time or motivation to
> maintain this and deal with related issues.
> 
> From what I've seen the driver is actively maintained upstream and
> using it with libvirt (tested with 1.1) is only a matter of removing
> the --without-esx flag and rebuild the package.
> 
> Out of curiosity, isn't that good enough in this particular case?

Not at all. Who's going to triage the bugs, reproduce them, forward them
upstream, request needed logs, backport fixes to stable or build
security updates. 

This could all be improved for the currently enabled drivers that manage
open source hypervisors - I'm not going to waste any free time on a
proprietary one.
Cheers,
 -- Guido


> 
> Cheers.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > -- Guido
> 
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