[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.4 packaging.

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > Hi waldi,
>> >
>> > 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 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.
>>
>> In the meantime 4.4.0 has been released and it seems like Stefan has
>> done most of the hard work to update the packaging in Ubuntu. I'd like
>> to get this into Jessie sooner rather than later. Do you object to me
>> working on this at some point?
>>
>> Ian.
> Yes Ubuntu xen 4.4 packages can be a start, I think also that is good 
> remove more debian/patches possible to make faster future updates.
> I already reported here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1297224
> At least 3 pathes can be already removed and use configure values 
> instead.
> Probably there are also other things that can be fixed and/or improved 
> upstream instead always have and maintain dozen of distros patches.
>
> Thanks for any help about debian packages and sorry for my band english.
>

Are there some news about new xen packages for debian?

I did some small improvements to latest xen's ubuntu packages:
https://github.com/Fantu/pkg-xen

If you have not had the time I could try to update the debian packages 
by making a first draft and testing them (excluding test the arm 
hypervisor on which I have not sufficient knowledge).

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

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