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

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 19:47:42 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
Closing the pu bug.

Cheers,
Julien