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

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

Thanks a lot to Hans, Maximilian and Sean!

El 08/12/24 a las 13:38, Sean Whitton escribió:
> 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?

Why not, but... xen security support in bullseye last year (exactly on
2023-09-30, a little more than two years after the bullseye release):
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053246, and it was
similar for buster.
Of course, part of the goal of my initial bug report was to improve the
xen security support for trixie in that sense. The Xen packaging team
has stated in #1053246 that they were not in a position to continue
supporting xen after the upstream EOL. (And one of the next steps is to
look again for external help). My point is that the lts-team's
package.yml is probably not the best place to document the xen team'
needs, because xen is out of our current tooling radar.

Adding it there doesn't harm, but I wonder if that is the best place if
the goal is to monitor packages where the LTS team could help on
unstable/testing. Further discussion can be done at the "Explore ways to
figure out which packages in unstable could use help" issue:
https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues/71.

[...]

> > 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).

+1

Cheers,

 -- Santiago
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