[Pkg-xen-devel] Patches needed for Debian Installer to work on Lenny (Was: A couple of bugs with patches)

[Ian Jackson]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Patches needed for Debian Installer to work on Lenny (Was: A	couple of bugs with patches)"):
> Bastian, apologies for CC'ing you against list policy but I wanted to be
> sure you saw this since you seem to be the active maintainer.

Likewise.

I think it would be very useful to have these changes in Debian's Xen
packages in lenny.  Bastian, if you don't have time to deal with this
personally, would you welcome an NMU to make these two changes ?

> First is #476366 which is a pygrub issue that prevents booting a guest
> using pygrub if its partitions were created using a post-Etch mkfs.ext3
> (>= 1.40.5-1 according to #463123 which is the equivalent grub bug). I
> guess this also impacts people building guest domains with
> deboostrap/xen-tools/etc.

I would fix this by adding
  Build-Depends: e2fslibs-dev
as suggested by Ian Campbell.

> The second is #474509 which is a wishlist bug to enable the booting of
> bzImage format kernel images. This is required to support d-i in a nice
> way since it means we don't need to keep two kernel images in the
> debian-installer directory on the mirror and so on. The kernel half of
> the patch has already been applied to the 2.6.25 kernels in Sid,
> #473645.

I would apply the patch in #474509.

Please let me know what to do.  If an NMU would not be unwelcome then
I'll go ahead, swapping hats appropriately.

Ian.