[Pkg-xen-devel] Upcoming stable point release (10.4)

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Cc: Ian, xen at packages to see if it works

Hi Adam,

On 4/14/20 11:35 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The next point release for "buster" (10.4) is scheduled for Saturday,
> May 9th. Processing of new uploads into buster-proposed-updates will be
> frozen during the preceding weekend.

I spent half of the day yesterday to prepare a Xen 4.11 update for
Buster and unstable, before realizing I gloriously already was missing
the deadline for getting things into the point release.

That was a disappointment, but this is of course my own fault, because I
messed up different dates for different things in my head.

So, my question is: I see that you're bcc-ing the kernel team with the
point release reminder announcements. Can you include Xen team with
this, so that we get a reminder at the right moment to start preparing
an upload at that time? I suspect xen at packages.debian.org works to end
up at whatever place our team mailing list is at any time (testing with
a Cc in this one).

The other thing that is just too obvious, but what I realized very
recently, is that it is helpful for our users to push out linux kernel
and xen updates at the same time. It's all about reducing
security-stress and reboot moments (and induced maintenance) for users.

This means that whenever kernel team is doing a security update, or when
they do their stable kernel release update for a point release, we (Xen)
should just also do an update with whatever is in the upstream stable
Xen branch that we follow for Debian stable. A few minutes ago I
mentioned this in #debian-kernel, I think it would be nice to find out a
way to have some FYI communication happening regarding this.

---- >8 ----

So, there's a lot of FYI in here, and the only actual question for you
is to also get a push-reminder about an upcoming point release.

---- >8 ----

We have a little fix [0] that removes a bug when upgrading to a new Xen
version (that will be 4.11 to e.g. 4.13 which we're preparing for
experimental->unstable). I will just proceed and prepare the 4.11 upload
for unstable and 4.13 for experimental, and the buster situation is a
bit on hold now. What I know for sure is that I want to have it in 10.5 :-)

Thanks!
Hans (Knorrie on IRC)

[0]
https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/-/commit/2c32c3136351353a9149654ba5bc52983e3bf2d0
(commit id might get lost when I force push the WIP branch)