[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#536174: Bug#536174: Bug#536174: xen-utils-3.4: pygrub searches for filesystem plugins at the wrong path

[Bastian Blank]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:08:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Related to the above also: I even asked the Xen team the request to add
> the following 2 symlinks, that would have solve many issues in numerous
> software:

What is "numerous software" and what are they doing with this internal
und unstable interfaces?

> I was told that it was a stupid thing, and my bug was tagged "wontfix".
> I'd like to understand exactly WHY the packager took this decision.

Because it declares the interface as public and therefor stable enough
to not break now and then.

> This makes absolutely no sense to me, and also, I don't think that being
> a maintainer gives you the rights to decide for everyone using the
> distribution.

In Debian the maintainer have the power to decide this. However, they
can be overwritten by the developers at all or the technical
committee.[1]

>               This was a very big concern for us, and I was really
> disappointed to see the reaction of the Debian Xen team, not considering
> the report, and being quite unfriendly.

Only a small amount of the people gets payed to do the job, most are
volunteers.

> Also, if there's no /usr/lib/xen, what is the point of having a
> /etc/alternatives/xen-default? I'd like to understand.

There is a /usr/lib/xen-default. This link is meant as a last resort
fallback in case it can't decide which version to use.[2] So in theory you
can use a handmade Xen with a prebuilt version of the userspace.

Bastian

[1]: http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
[2]: /usr/lib/xen-common/bin/xen-utils-version
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