[Pkg-xen-devel] Your xen stable upload

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Hans,

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 03:59:06PM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On 8/25/24 15:26, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > 
> > I noticed that there's a xen upload in the stable-new queue, which
> > claims to have been uploaded by you.
> > 
> > I'm afraid that we can't accept it currently, because it is a newer
> > version than is currently in unstable and testing:
> > 
> > xen        | 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1 | stable             | source
> > xen        | 4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u1 | stable-debug       | source
> > xen        | 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1         | testing            | source
> > xen        | 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1         | unstable           | source
> > xen        | 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1         | unstable-debug     | source
> > xen        | 4.17.5-1~deb12u1                | stable-new         | source
> 
> Fair enough. I just read this after finishing the accompanying bts bug
> report, which also mentions that.
> 
> We're running into problems with 4.17.5-1 for unstable, which is most
> likely related to compatibility issues with newer ocaml in unstable.
> This is causing crashes while testing the results, which we did not
> manage to resolve so far. The Bookworm build of it tests fine, however.
> 
> So, instead of doing nothing at all, we at least wanted to share what we
> have now.

Were you able to work towards that, and have unstable upload so that
xen might be included in the next point release? Note that window is
closing soon, and point release is scheduled for 9th November.

Regards,
Salvatore