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

[Matthew Palmer]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 02:24:02PM +0200, Marco Crociani - Tyrael wrote:
> 2007/6/16, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.de>:
> > 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.
>
> 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).

Since it was me that wrote that on xen-users, I feel I should point out that
I'm not involved in packaging Xen for Debian, and really, really don't speak
for the Xen packaging team when it comes to why 3.1 packages aren't out. 
I'm just saying this in case anyone misinterprets my words above as being
some sort of official position statement or anything.

- Matt