[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 3.1 in unstable?

[Marco Crociani - Tyrael]

2007/6/16, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.de>:
> Hi,
> I just happen to see that there are no Xen 3.1 packages in unstable as
> of yet - even if 3.1 is released since a while now. There are the
> Packages in Ralph's apt repository, but I wonder why there are no newer
> packages yet.
>
> This shouldn't be criticism, but two questions come up:
>
> 1) Is the reason that there are no newer packages that you need some
> more help? Then I might be able to do something (depending on the area
> in which help is needed).
>
> 2) I talked with Ewan Mellor from XenSource at the Xen summit this
> spring. He(as a Debian user) also wondered why there where no newer Xen
> packages in unstable. In case there are some things needed or useful to
> be done on the Xen upstream side to help ease packaging for Debian, he'd
> be very interested to know and try to add necessary changes.
> So, if there is something, one could contact him and ask him for
> help/cooperation. If you don't have the time, I'd forward stuff you let
> me know to him, or ask him he could subscribe to this list to ease
> discussion.
>
>
> just my 2 cents,
> Henning
>
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Hi,
I think that these are the problems:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418783
"2.6.20 is dropped from the archive and no xen support exists in newer
kernels."
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-06/msg00302.html
"My guess (and it's purely a guess) is that nobody's stepped up to port the
Xen patches to kernels newer than 2.6.20, and hence "no xen support exists
in newer kernels".  Debian is taking a fairly hard-line approach to kernel
versions these days -- no more having hundreds of different kernel versions
and build options in the stable release (at one point, an entire CD's worth
of various kernel packages were in the release).

Now, you get one kernel source that covers all architectures and options,
and the various different kernels get built out of that.  If your pet
out-of-lkml-tree patch doesn't apply to the new kernel source, and nobody's
willing to put the resources into making it work again, then out it goes.
It's a pest, but the other options were just untenable, from a stable
release maintenance point of view."

Any news about this?
Regards,

-- 
Marco Crociani - Tyrael
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