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

[Ian Jackson]

Stefan Bader writes ("Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Help wanted with Debian Xen packages ?"):
> On 27.09.2016 17:07, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Xen 4.8 is freezing RSN.  I would like to get Xen 4.8 into stretch.  I
> > think we should probably be aiming to upload a lateish Xen 4.8 RC into
> > stretch when it comes out.  Xen 4.8.0 will have been out for a while
> > by the Debian soft freeze in January.  Getting 4.8 into sid and
> > stretch will also mean that the recent security vulnerabilities will
> > be fixed; currently stretch is in rather poor shape.
> 
> Yeah, its lagging quite a bit. Moving there will face the same lib
> issues. Not sure whether the src deb from my ppa would be a help to
> start from. Some of the debian patches will always have to be
> refreshed manually, but at least some of the no longer needed ones
> would be gone from there.  What likely needs better review is some
> of the new things which I did not pick for the binary package
> because they were not used before and nothing seemed to complain
> about them missing (like some fsimage lib IIRC).

Right.  Right now I don't have time to look at all this properly.
Upstream 4.8 is freezing today so we're quite busy.

But in a week or two I intend to look at this more closely.  I'll aim
to prepare a package for review.  After I've done that I'll give
everyone a week or so I think and then upload it.

I take it no-one objects if I add myself to Uploaders.

Ian.