[Pkg-xen-devel] Debian revisions and policy comments [signed]

[Guido Trotter]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:16:06PM +0100, Ralph Passgang wrote:

Hi,

> an alternative is to create source package that already have the 
> "linux-<version>.tar.bz2" file included. That would blow the package but 
> would make it possible to build the binary packages without any inet access. 
> 

And probably also make the ftpmasters carefully wait before ever approving our
packages (read: postpone forever)! ;)

> hmmm, I don't know If I got you right, but supporting another kernel version 
> then the xen upstream normally uses is afaik a hard job.
> 

Then we cannot support anything different than 2.6.12.6 which is not in
unstable, testing or stable (stable uses 2.6.8 and unstable and testing
2.6.15). So the user will certainly need to download and roll his kernel, and we
just need to ship him some form of patch for that version (which is the only one
upstream supports for stable)

We can just be our own upstream for the patch, for the time being, and hope they
will merge, one day!

Guido