[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#759384: xen: Lack of copyright entry for Vinay Sajip

Riley BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4Xix at bitmessage.ch
Sat Sep 20 21:16:22 UTC 2014


Source: xen
Followup-For: Bug #759384

That being said, we probably don't need Vinay's code in xen anymore.

>From Vinay's email to -legal,

> It appears that this very old code is only ever invoked if the Python
> logging module is unavailable. However, this would only apply to Python
> versions < 2.3, and Xen has a dependency on Python 2.5. So the code in
> question is never called and could IMO be removed. I would guess this
> code is a holdover from versions of Xen pre-dating its adoption of a
> release of Python >= 2.3. Note that the last version of the standalone
> module was 0.4.9.6, which is later than the 0.4.9.2 version referenced.



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