[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Packaing Xen 3.0 etc for Debian [signed]

[Guido Trotter]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:52:00AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse [c] wrote:

Hi,

>     Upon looking at the ftp-master link you included. It appears Bastian
> went with the process of further polluting the archive with additional
> packages by naming his package xen-3.0 rather than simply replacing
> Adam's 'xen' package like we have done. So for all intents and purposes
> we could prolly still proceed and leave it up to a DD discussion which
> to remove from the archive. I do think our packaging is superior as we
> are working from the latest repository rather than a static tarball so
> we would get fixes included quicker.
> 

Well, that's the name of the source package... We don't know which binary
packages it generates... Anyway I agree that it's OK for the source package to
be called "xen" as in our case, while we'll have to "pollute" the archive if we
want unstable, uploading a "xen-unstable" branch too...

I agree having it in the repository is good... I've checked the debian-kernel
svn repo and xen doesn't seem to be there, but we don't know if it's not
somewhere else... ;) Also since the packages are in NEW we cannot know how the
packaging is done, etc, as the sources are not available!

>     You may have noticed my email went out to Bastian, the -kernel list
> and ours. Hopefully it will generate some discussion and slow this issue
> down a bit so it can be resolved logically not irrationally.
> 

We'll see! Even if the upload made me a bit pessimist! (not about how the issue
will be solved, but about his will to discuss...)

Guido