[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:47 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> Package: src:xen
>> Version: 4.1.3-4
>> Severity: serious
>> 
>> The bzimage loader used in both libxc and the hypervisor lacks XZ
>> support. Debian kernels since 3.6 are compressed with XZ and can't be
>> loaded.
>> 
>> Support for XZ compression was added in changeset 23002:eb64b8f8eebb
>> somewhere last year.
> 
> Indeed. Jan this would be a good candidate for a future 4.1.x I think
> (it was already in 4.2.0).

Hmm, I'm not really convinced - we're at 4.1.4 (I'm looking
towards an RC2 followed by a release within the next days),
and doing a feature addition like this in a .5 stable release
looks questionable to me in the context of how we managed
stable updates in the past. But I'm open to be outvoted of
course...

Jan