[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#765346: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Uploading 112-2 to sid

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:16:40PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello Guido, Michael,
> 
> Guido Günther [2014-10-14 15:53 +0200]:
> > I can understand that but what's the way forward here then? Are we
> > going to stick with 105 forever (forking it). Just delaying it without
> > an alternative doesn't seem good either.
> 
> It's certainly not ideal, but PK 105 works fine and there's not that
> much going on wrt. upstream development either.
> 
> One potential solution that I see is to put back support for .pkla
> files upstream, and make building the JS backend optional. Then we
> could keep up with newer upstream releases/fixes again. But so far
> this hasn't happened mostly because there hasn't been a pressing need
> to do so.
> 
> Other than that, I certainly don't have magic veto powers on this,
> especially not in Debian :-) This is just my opinion (and the opinion
> of our security team, FWIW). So if Joss/Michael/etc. think it'd be
> good to move to the JS based backend, then please go ahead. But NB
> that this will break existing customized installs as AFAIK the old
> .pkla backend went away completely. It would be nice if at least both
> were available, so that we keep backwards compat and admins could

Agreed. This pretty much rules out an update in time for Jessie. I've
filed #765386 to keep track of this.
Cheers,
 -- Guido