[Pkg-xen-devel] xen-qemu-dm does not build with backported xen-4.1

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Fri Apr 29 09:47:52 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:18 +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Il 29/04/2011 04:05, Thomas Goirand ha scritto:
> > What changed in
> > Bastian mind so that what he wrote in July 2009:
> > 
> > "I refuse to maintain the security-hog called qemu for the next stable
> > release, so it can only come from a different source package."
> 
> I didn't check, but are you sure he is not using the upstream qemu
> branch thanks to Anthony Perard patches?

It doesn't look like it to me.

I wouldn't recommend the upstream qemu Xen support for an upload to
Debian at this stage anyway -- the new qemu is in reasonable shape but
the surrounding toolstack infrastructure isn't really up to scratch and
there has been no upstream release using this combination and hence
there has been almost no upstream validation or widespread use of the
upstream qemu.

In particular we are hoping to switch to SeaBIOS as part of the
transition and so we don't really want to support upstream-qemu+ROMBIOS
combinations in the wild.

Leading Debian users down that path right now would not be in their best
interests IMHO.

> > Why isn't your packaging work shared in a VCS? I really don't get
> > it...

svn://svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/pkg-xen

Ian.

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