[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#1089033: xen: Please package xen version 4.19

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Wed 04 Dec 2024 at 10:56am -03, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:

> Source: xen
> Severity: normal
> User: debian-lts at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: upstream-trixie
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-lts at lists.debian.org
>
> Dear xen maintainers,
>
> Testing (trixie) currently ships xen 4.17, which, according to the
> upstream support matrix [x], will get security support until 2025-12-12.
> The latest upstream release (4.19) will get security support until
> 2027-07-29. I believe it would be easier to provide security updates for
> trixie users if 4.19 is packaged in testing.
>
> If you need or want help packaging this new upstream version, please
> don't hesitate to speak up. Someone from the LTS team, may be interested
> in contributing (CC'ing debian-lts).

As I'm familiar with the git-debrebase workflow that Xen uses in Debian,
I might be well-placed to help; on the other hand, I'm less experienced
with packages that require special booting arrangements to test they are
working.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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