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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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Hello Mattia,

I just got back home from DebConf.

On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 07:05 -0700, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 

Okay! So in that case I'll demote uml-utilities to a Recommends/Suggests.

> > 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.

Yes. I do remember you talking about it in our last email conversation. First,
I'll work on uml this week, to get it back in the archive. And then later I'll
see how best to integrate it into debian-kernel.

PS: And I just noticed you did some work with uml-utilities. Thanks.


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