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

[Daniel Pocock]

On 14/05/16 19:35, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> 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.
> 

If I understand the LTS wiki correctly, users don't need to make any
extra effort to get the package from LTS, so I think that strategy
sounds fine

Can anybody else comment, is there any reason not to do it this way?

This appears to be the page with LTS instructions for releasing the fix:

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development