[Pkg-xen-devel] Entirely new Xen packaging

[Stephen Gelman]

This is awesome!  What needs to be done before this can make it to
unstable?  I’d love to help if there’s anything I can do.

Stephen

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:00 PM Hans van Kranenburg <hans at knorrie.org> wrote:

> On 10/05/2018 08:04 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 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 !
>
> \:D/ Congrats!
>
> > 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.
>
> This is an amazing amount of improvements, really nice!
>
> I've spent last hour looking around, and did build packages for stretch.
> I'm going to install them probably tomorrow.
>
> The comments about why things are in a certain place (like, in rules)
> are really helpful.
>
> > 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.
>
> Ah, that's probably because I started working on that during the UK
> visit, while you started working on this. :)
>
> I plan to work on this project on tuesday (2nd tuesday of the month!),
> finally processing my notes, updating TODO-list stuff and doing a few of
> them.
>
> o/
> Hans
>
>
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