[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#824341: wheezy-pu: update xen-utils-4.1 with patch to boot jessie/grub2 VMs

[Adam D. Barratt]

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On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 19:10 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> If somebody is still running wheezy for their dom0 (host) environment
> and they are using jessie or other systems with grub2 in their VMs, they
> can't boot their VM.
> 
> A rather trivial 1-line fix in the dom0 (host) system fixes the problem.
> 
> Please advise if the release team would accept an upload to old-stable
> adding the following 1-line patch:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=783346;filename=GrubConf.py-jessie.patch;att=1

Given that xen-utils-4.1 only exists on architectures that are covered
by wheezy-lts, is there a good reason not to handle the change via that
route? We're working towards EOLing wheezy now so generally aren't
taking new updates.

Regards,

Adam