[Pkg-xen-devel] Entirely new Xen packaging

[Ian Jackson]

I have now finished totally rewriting the Xen package in Debian, from
scratch.  Amazingly as soon as I got a package which was lintian-clean
and would install, it worked first time !

I have generated 18 patches to go upstream which I have sent to
xen-devel.  There are two more, xenstore ABI patches, which need a bit
of tidying up.

There is still room for improvement but it is now clearly ready for
sharing so I uploaded it.  The result is now in dgit/dgit/sid, and
salsa/master.

I do not know if it builds other than on amd64.  I hope so, because I
have stripped out a lot of cruft.  If there are build failures we will
have to fix them.

Debian FTP Masters writes ("xen_4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-1~exp1_multi.changes ACCEPTED into experimental, experimental"):
>  xen (4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * Update to new upstream version 4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg.
>    * Remove stubdom/grub.patches/00cvs from the upstream source because it's
>      not DFSG compliant. (license-problem-gfdl-invariants)
>    * Override statically-linked-binary lintian error about
>      usr/lib/xen-4.11/boot/xen-shim

I accidentally dropped these changes from my fisrt upload to sid.  I
noticed when I tried to push to salsa/master and discovered my branch
wasn't ff.  Hooray for git.

So I have fixed that by rebasing onto the dfsg upstreamk tag and
followed it up with a 2nd upload.  So please don't be alarmed by noise
from the archive.

Ian.

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