[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Mon Jul 14 17:32:13 UTC 2008


Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Steve Langasek schreef:
> 
>> If the Debian security team is unwilling or unable to provide support for a
>> 2.6.18 kernel over the lifetime of lenny, I'm happy to see us let dom0 be
>> Somebody Else's Problem.  I'm certainly happier with that than having us
>> /claim/ to support 2.6.18, have users rely on that claim, and then not be
>> able to deliver.
> 
> Maybe we can stop with etch-and-a-half. For the security-team is
> supporting the etch-and-a-half kernel (2.6.24) a lot more work then
> supporting the etch-kernel.
> 
> I think "etch-and-a-half" is a good idea, but the team is very late with
> it. Too late when Lenny is in time, in my opinion.

If we abandon it now, all trouble we went through didn't serve anything
and if we want to try it again, we kind of have to start over again. I
don't think we should stop it, rather make it happen soon.

Cheers

Luk



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