[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#783346: Bug #783346: patch for booting Jessie domU with wheezy dom0

[Dameon Wagner]

On Tue, Jan 22 2019 at 08:26:52 +0100, Daniel Pocock scribbled
 in "Re: Bug #783346: patch for booting Jessie domU with wheezy dom0":
> On 20/01/2019 19:01, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> > reassign 783346 src:xen 4.1.4-3+deb7u4
> > severity 783346 normal
> > thanks
> > 
> > Hi Daniel,
> > 
> > This is about the bug report that you filed before about pygrub 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), and I'm
> > trying to clean up our open bug report list a bit.
> > 
> > In the bug history, I see that already was suggested to use the
> > grub2 based way of booting the virtual machines instead of pygrub.
> > This is still recommended.
> > 
> > Addtionally, the grub-xen-* packages in Debian Buster will now
> > also be able to boot a Xen domU using the new PVH virtualization
> > mode, if you use the Debian Linux 4.19 kernel package inside.
> > 
> > Am I right to understand that we can close this bug report now?
> 
> If you are still distributing the script with the bug, then I would
> recommend:
> 
> a) check if the patch is now included upstream, if yes, close the
>    bug, or
> 
> b) include the patch in the Debian package, or
> 
> c) stop installing the pygrub script in the package so that users
>    have to use pygrub2 or something else.
> 
> However, I migrated from Xen to KVM so I'm not using the package
> personally any more.

A (albeit quick) look through the changelogs and the ELTS packages
from Freexian appear to have the patch applied (or at least the fix is
in place), though this bug doesn't appear to be referenced anywhere,
so it's quite possible that as the ELTS package is a newer version,
the fix was just included in the backport.

I'd say the bug can be closed, as anyone still using a Wheezy Dom0
should probably be getting packages from ELTS anyway.

Cheers.

Dameon.

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