[Pkg-xen-devel] Debian/Xen microsprint, Cambridge (short initial report)

[John Keates]

I noticed! Thank you for your work so far and congratulations on this huge milestone! You guys managed to make a ton of progress in a (debian scale) short amount of time.

Regards,
John

> On 12 Sep 2018, at 20:51, Hans van Kranenburg <hans at knorrie.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We had an interesting and productive day yesterday.
> 
> The main achievement is:
> 
>   xen_4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-1~exp1_multi.changes ACCEPTED
> into experimental
> 
> \o/
> 
> For whoever wants to try and play around with it, please do! I've just
> booted it with a Buster dom0 and the Linux 4.18.6-1 package as dom0 kernel.
> 
> I made a bunch of notes. We managed to discuss all of the things
> mentioned in the TODO [0], also helped by a group of upstream developers
> during lunchtime.
> 
> Ian started working on refactoring debian/rules and everything in that
> area, since it is very convoluted and hard to change now. The result
> should be a much better editable and maintanable build procedure for the
> upstream code.
> 
> I started to fix the two blockers that caused a previous REJECT for an
> upload to Debian experimental, and finished the conversion to using
> git-debrebase. The result is now in the master branch on salsa.
> 
> We targeted experimental again, because there's work needed on the
> libraries (and which binary packages they go in) which turns out to have
> a bunch of missing and incorrect placements and sonames. More about this
> later. Fixing this will be done as part of, or will be able to happen in
> an easier way after Ians current work.
> 
> I still have to process my notes on paper, and when doing so, I'll add
> all the info to the TODO page [0] first, before deciding how to proceed
> from there. I'll ping the list when this is done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hans
> 
> [0] https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/issues/19
> 
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