[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#817708: uml-utilities marked for removal

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:58:58PM +0200, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
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> Hi,
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> As per the tracker, uml-utilities is marked for removal from the archive on the
> 19th of July.
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uml-utilities
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> Are there any plans for fixing it ?

No. At the moment it doesn't make much sense to keep uml-utilities in
the archive. Even if/when UML is re-added, it should be considered
whether uml-utilities are all that useful.

> PS: I'm trying to bring back user-mode-linux back into the archive. So any help
> on retaining uml-utilities in the archive will be nice.

Thanks for doing that. I'd like to say that I'm trying too, but
effectively I have a lot of ideas but very little time to go after them.
Specifically, the biggest problem I had with the previous packaging was
that it required too much maintenance burden. UML should be one of the
artifacts created by the regular Debian kernel builds.

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mattia
:wq!