[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#836896: xen-utils-4.6: xenstore-read does not read from daemon

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 07:50:50PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> tags 836896 + moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is about the bug report about xenstore that you filed before in the
> Debian bug tracker, against the Xen packages.
> 
> Your bug report was targeted at a Xen package in a Debian distribution
> older than the current stable (Stretch).
> 

Well, to be fair, when the bug was reported, Jessie was the latest
stable release.

> Can you please help us by confirming that any of the following scenarios
> does apply to your situation?
> 
> * I had this problem a long time ago. It was never solved, but I found a
> workaround, which is ...
> * I had this problem a long time ago, and I solved it by not using Xen
> any more, but by doing ...
> * I still experience this problem, and I'm still using Xen
> 3.2/4.1/4.4/etc. I cannot upgrade to Debian Stretch or Buster because ...
> * I had this problem, and since upgrading to Stretch / Buster / ? it
> seems it was solved, and I forgot to report it again. Please close it,
> thanks.
> * Other: ...
> 

I was just trying to reproduce a kernel bug that happened under xen. In
the process, I found issues trying to use it, did some debugging, and
reported as much information as I could.

> Note that even if you found a solution, it's still very useful to report
> it back to our bug tracker. There might be someone else running into the
> same problem, who can be helped with your information.
> 
> Please note that unless there's a response within a month from now, we
> will close the bug report. If you discover this message later, and this
> case is important to you, then you can try unarchiving the bug and
> replying to it, or reach out to the maintainers email list at
> pkg-xen-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org (no subscription required) and
> post a message.

You don't have to wait a month. Just close and archive it already.

I understand how hard it is to maintain a package like xen on Debian,
and why this automatic triage is needed. I appreciate your time
maintaining such an important software under Debian.

Thanks.
Cascardo.

> 
> Thanks,
> Hans van Kranenburg