[Pkg-xen-devel] Feedback on merge of Xen-4.8.0

[Ian Jackson]

Stefan Bader writes ("Feedback on merge of Xen-4.8.0"):
> first thanks for picking up so many things in your
> upload. Unfortunately it took me a while to merge this back into
> Ubuntu. So it is a bit late for the feedback but I hope it still
> helps a bit.

Thanks.  I will look at this today.

Debian's migration freeze is 10 days from today and there are now
mandatory 10 day migrations.  So it is possible that whatever fix I
come up with will need a freeze exception.

> Sadly I think that by picking up the grub default file, you picked
> up some trouble. It is not the contents but the packaging. Logically
> it belongs to the hypervisor, but that is versioned in Debian to be
> able to have 2 versions installed in parallel. But that breaks now
> with the same config file being in both. I get away with that in
> Ubuntu because we do support only one version installed and I add
> transitional hypervisor packages. I believe the right move would be
> to have a xen-hypervisor-common but am not sure how one would make a
> safe transition there. Maybe together we can work something out.

Do you want to file a bug ?  (Severity: important)

If you don't, I will.

> Other than that, there are two (and maybe a haf) things that might
> be beneficial for Debian:

I don't think any of this is doable at this stage of the Debian
release.

Ian.