[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536175: Bug#536175: Bug#536175: Bug#536175: Bug#536176: xen-utils-3.4: trying xen-3.4 once breaks xen-3.2 (?)

Csillag Kristof csillag.kristof at united-consult.hu
Sat Jul 11 10:15:50 UTC 2009


Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:27:52PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>   
>> For example Fedora's Xen 3.4.0 source RPM contains the xen-3.4.0.tar.gz
>> release tarball, and they build the included ioemu, just like in earlier Xen
>> releases. That is the correct way to do it.
>>     
>
> If you think this is the correct way, go with Fedora.
>   
... as for me, I have had it now, and I go with VirtualBox.

> I refuse to maintain the security-hog called qemu for the next stable
> release, so it can only come from a different source package.
>   
You are free to do so, but if you are releasing a package which is missing
half of the functionality that upstream release with the same version number
provides, you should at least warn your users about this fact.

    Kristof






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