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

[Ian Jackson]

xen 4.8.0~rc3-0exp1 is on its way to experimental now.  I took most of
Stefan's library soname etc. changes.

I will file a transition bug when it comes through NEW.  (See below
for what build-rdeps said.  I have done initial checks that the
build-rdeps build against libxen-4.8 and it seems OK.)

I think there is some cleanup work that could be done to rationalise
the Debian patch queue.  Particularly the build system patches are
extensive and with a small amount of help from upstream could become
textually much smaller (and less of a pain to rebase).  And I'm not
sure that the parallel install scheme works as well as it could do.
Again, there are things that upstream could do better.

But I wanted not to make big changes to the Debian package at this
stage of the Xen release.

Ian.


Reverse Build-depends in main:
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libvirt
python-pyxenstore
xenwatch
grub2
collectd
qemu

Found a total of 6 reverse build-depend(s) for libxen-dev.