[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#995341: Highly inappropriate behavior which the RT should be aware of

[Chuck Zmudzinski]

On 10/3/2021 5:14 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 11:48:48AM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote:
>> I want to make sure that you're aware of what I consider HIGHLY inappropriate
>> behavior by Chuck where he is trying to sidestep/override the Xen maintainers
>> by filing this bug directly to the release.debian.org pseudo package.
> why don't you give Chuck more slack and assume he filed this bug the way he did
> with the best intentions? really.
>
> and even if that would be wrong, treating it this way would not be wrong. :)
>
>

Hi Holger,

I want to thank you (off-BTS now that #995341 is closed) for defending
me on the BTS. I decided to mark this bug as done now that one of the
uploaders for the package maintainer has weighed in and considering
what he said, I am not willing to try to pursue #995341 with the Release
Team any further against the wishes of the package maintainer. If
someone from the Release Team wants to reopen #995341 and reconsider
my proposal or something else for bullseye, that would be up to
them. The bug is #995341, reported against the release pseudo-package
and the bullseye release, and the package maintainer is the Debian Xen Team.

There still is some instability possible in the package because the
package maintainer's solution is to ship in bullseye a mostly
upstream version 4.14 with a few (13) patches from the stable
upstream 4.15 version to provide better support for popular arm
devices (the Raspberry Pi 4) than a pure upstream version 4.14 would.

Also, the version numbering and documentation so far does not
indicate the existence of some patches from upstream version 4.15 in
Debian's package of upstream's 4.14 version for bullseye (stable), but
that would probably be best handled by the documentation people,
but the version number could in some way indicate that the package
for bullseye is not really upstream 4.14 but 4.14 + a little of 4.15.

Thanks,

Chuck