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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sat 07 Dec 2024 at 12:58pm +01, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:

> Yes, we need some assistance.

Thank you for the write-up.  Santiago, maybe we should add a link to
this thread to packages.yml, or something like that?  What do you think?

> The situation regarding the packages is:
> * We have a Xen 4.19 package ready, that has been tested.
> * ==> We need a sponsor to upload it to experimental as NEW <==
> * We can then prepare an up-to-date 4.19 for unstable.
> * And then... we can again continue doing the 4.17 (security-)updates
> for stable.

Cool, I will sponsor the upload, can you confirm the repository and
branch that you consider ready-to-go ?

> The current situation regarding the Debian Xen team is:
> * Currently that's Maximilian and me. (I'm a DM)
> * We're a dedicated team, we do manage, but we're also not enormously
> high on excess bandwidth. I mean, we can't do a lot of the 'nice to haves'.

Describes plenty of teams in Debian.
I like to think it means you don't spend time on things that are
not-really-nice-to-have-but-feel-like-they-are :)

> In general, what we could really use for assistance is a bit of a safety
> net for certain situations. Like, a few (DD) people who we know and who
> know about us and what we do, and who we can contact if needed, and who
> can help with various topics, like sponsoring uploads if needed, help
> with packaging tooling, navigating non-trivial package transitions,
> complex makefile/build/library-dependency/etc stuff...

When it's a matter of these major version transitions and you are close
to running out of time for the next stable release of Debian, I think
you could always get in touch with debian-lts at lists.d.o and there is a
good chance someone is available to help (me in this case).

-- 
Sean Whitton
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