[Pkg-xen-devel] Help wanted with Debian Xen packages ?

[Stefan Bader]

On 31.08.2016 10:43, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 30.08.2016 18:56, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> Hi.  I've been looking at the BTS and PTS and security tracker, and it
>> looks like maybe you could do with some help ?
>>
>> Issues I noticed include:
>>
>>  * 4.7, the latest Xen upstream release, is not in sid
> 
> If it is of any help, I did some initial work with 4.7[1]. You would have to
> work around some distro specific things but I tried to keep them at a minimum.
> Some things might be useful (like starting qemu for dom0, having xenstored in
> its own sysvinit file. the sysvinit dependency hinting). One thing I still have
> to fix is to have abiname style changes for the new libs.

FWIW, I think I got the library naming cleaned up now (~rc5). Slightly different
approach as I had to either keep the major.minor .so versions (I believe because
of the map files) or libvirt would fail to compile against the xen lib.

-Stefan

> 
> -Stefan
> 
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~smb/+archive/ubuntu/xen/+packages
>>
>>  * Even leaving that aside, sid doesn't seem to have all the security
>>    fixes which ought to be expected.
>>
>>  * The BTS could do with a bit of gardening, perhaps.
>>
>> Please let me know what, if anything, you think you would like help
>> with.
>>
>> FYI I also looked at security-tracker.debian.org pages for all the
>> unfixed vulnerabilities in wheezy and jessie, and I think the
>> decisions not to backport those fixes are reasonable in each case.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ian.
>>


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