[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.4 packaging.

[Ian Campbell]

On Sat, 2014-07-05 at 14:06 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 02:05:34PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream have
> > released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final version next
> > week (I've been out of the office for a bit, so I don't know the precise
> > state, but that was the last I heard).
> 
> I finally found the time to do work on it.

FWIW so did I on Friday.

I'll rebase onto your tree and see what is left over.

> During the last months I finally discovered a combination of tools that
> provides me a workflow for git, which does work for me.  I now use a
> combination of git-flow, for change and release management, and git-dpm,
> for debian/patches and orig handling.  However, I haven't documented
> that yet.  So I also imported the current state into a git, but ignored
> the existing history.

git-flow is new to me (never heard of it), I'll check it out.

By the way: I've got a git-svn conversion of the old repo with proper
author emails etc in it -- would you me to stick it somewhere?

> The current state is:
> - Repo on (ssh|git)://git.debian.org/git/pkg-xen/xen.git. As it uses
>   git-flow, only the develop-branch is currently populated.
> - It builds packages.
> - Haven't run-tested them as my test-setup is not available.
> 
> > I would like to send patches to enable the build on ARM but this relies
> > on 4.4. I'm happy to do the upgrade first and send you patches if you
> > would prefer.
> 
> Please add a feature-branch[1] and push it somewhere.

Will do.

> If you have questions or need help, you can try to grab me on irc.

Ack, thanks.

> 
> Bastian
> 
> [1]: In case you haven't worked with git-flow yet:
>      git flow init
>      git flow feature start $NAME
> _______________________________________________
> Pkg-xen-devel mailing list
> Pkg-xen-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xen-devel