[Pkg-xen-devel] Re: Bug#362026: RM: xen -- obsolete, new splited xen packages upcoming

Julien Danjou acid at debian.org
Wed Apr 12 10:02:31 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:00:18PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Erm, why don't you upload with 'xen' instead of 'xen-3.0'? This will
> also make upgrades easier. Since you don't want to support both xen
> versions at the same time, I see no reason for this source and binary
> package rename?

Because we do plan to package and support several major releases of Xen
at the same time.
Furthermore, upgrade from Xen 2 is not possible. This has been discussed
_a lot_ on the Xen Debian mailing list.

Cheers,
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