[Pkg-xen-devel] Pending upload

[Ralph Passgang]

Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 00:26 schrieb Julien Danjou:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 08:07:22PM +0100, Guido Trotter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > One last thought... We haven't heard anything back from Bastian (for
> > which I'm sorry, I would really have liked if he had joined us) and in
> > the meantime consensus seem to have formed on -kernel and -devel, or at
> > least there was no more answers... Which means at least people don't
> > disagree strongly with the conclusions taken...
>
> It seems, it seems.
>
> > In the meantime, though, there's still the upload of xen 3 pending in
> > NEW... What about it? Are the ftpmasters going to reject it automatically
> > because they read the ML?
>
> Is there care bears in your world? ;-)
>
> > Are they going to approve it and then we'll have to see what's
> > inside and have upgrade paths from that other than Adam's, should we tell
> > them something, either privately, or filing a bug on them! (well, on
> > ftp.debian.org)
>
> We should try to mail them to ask that they don't accept it.
> If it fails, we should simply upload a 3.0.1xenteam-1 version I think or
> something like that :-(

Yeah, we should ask to reject the packages and why (at least a link to the 
discussion on the devel list).

It would be ugly if Bastian has changed a lot from 2.0.6 and we would have to 
support a clean upgrade from 2.0.6 (or 2.0.7 inofficial packages) + from 
bastian 3.0.x package. It would also only make the "disgreement" public that 
seems to be existing between bastians plans and more or less the rest of the 
people that discussed about xen on the debian-devel list.

We should mail the ftp-masters + cc to debian-devel, pkg-xen-devel, bastian & 
adam and tell publicy that we want to provide xen packages (for userspace and 
hypervisor) and that there seems to be a consense for that and that we would 
like for that reason that bastian packages gets rejected + that we would like 
again that bastian + adam to join our efforts.

That would make clear that we want to "takeover" but with the possibility that 
everybody that wants to contribute can join us easily. And it would inform 
everybody about our plans, so not someone else tries to have our packages 
rejected too.

argh, I am wondering a bit... at first it seems to me that there is no 
interessting for xen3 in debian and I made my own packages and now there are 
soooo many people interessted in xen3 and starting a fight about who will 
take over adams work...  is debian always so "political"? :)

--Ralph