[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen (dom0) Kernels in Lenny

[Henning Sprang]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, Henning Sprang wrote:
> Hi,
> Freeze is coming closer, and it starts more and more to look like there
> will be no (complete, especially lacking dom0 Kernel patches) Xen
> support in lenny if nothing changes, like:
> 
> 2) Some people come together and try to work out the needed patches for
> the newest Kernels and make them available in Debian. (I don't know
> what's the newest available patchset, would be interesting to check what
> the other doistributions do and have...)
> 
> 1) The Kernel team admits and exception from the rule of "only one
> single kernel version in Debian". 
> -> Making this exception could probably made easier by some people
> comitting to help support such an (hypothetical) additional version.
> 
> As I am not a kernel hacker myself, so I am not sure which is harder in
> terms of work to be done to develop and maintain the stuff - 2) is most
> likely harder from a communication/organizational point of view, and
> from the work to persuade the Release Managers to let such an additional
> Kernel package in. And 1) is the most futureproof thing to do, for sure.

BTW: I changed the order to sort them by priority, but changed the
numbers only in the references in the last paragraph. 
To make it clear: when mentioning the numbers in the last paragraph, I
mean the actual Ordering :)