[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen BOF at Debconf 18

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi,

So, that's tonight. :) I'm not at debconf unfortunately.

On 05/14/2018 04:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Re: Xen BOF at Debconf 18"):
>>
>> On 04/19/2018 04:40 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> Here is my first cut at a draft abstract:
>>>
>>>   Title: Xen in Debian BoF
>>>
>>>   Format: workshop with 25 min slot
>>>
>>>   The Xen packages in Debian are in need of some work, including some
>>>   tidying up, upstreaming of some Makefile patches, and updating to
>>>   new versions.  There is a large outstanding bug list.
>>>
>>>   Also with the demise of Alioth and the change to maintainers, we
>>>   will be talking about the future git maintence workflow.
>>>
>>>   Come and stick your oar in.  You can help influence the Xen
>>>   maintainers' workflows, and our priorities.
>>>

[...]

> If you have suggestions for how to improve the session, or the
> abstract (which I have now submitted, but I think I can still edit),
> please do let me know.

I updated the packaging to the 4.11.0 release. It builds on sid (with
gcc 8) and it installs and runs! :)

https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/commits/master

-# xen info
release                : 4.17.0-1-amd64
version                : #1 SMP Debian 4.17.8-1 (2018-07-20)
machine                : x86_64
[...]
xen_version            : 4.11.0
[...]

I also just added all problems that are detected by lintian to the issue
list. It's quite a few which should be addressed:

https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/issues

Finally, I added a top level README.md which points to README.source.md
and also to the repo wiki page, which is easily missed otherwise:

https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/wikis/home

Looking forward to hearing tomorrow about what happened during the BoF.

Have fun,

Hans