Pkg xen devel - May 2016 - Bug#824341: wheezy-pu: update xen-utils-4.1 with patch to boot jessie/grub2 VMs

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: wheezy
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-xen-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org


If somebody is still running wheezy for their dom0 (host) environment
and they are using jessie or other systems with grub2 in their VMs, they
can't boot their VM.

A rather trivial 1-line fix in the dom0 (host) system fixes the problem.

Please advise if the release team would accept an upload to old-stable
adding the following 1-line patch:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=783346;filename=GrubConf.py-jessie.patch;att=1

The bug report with the patch and discussion is:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783346

Note that if people are using XCP, they are stuck on wheezy for their
dom0 because XCP was not included[1] in jessie, so they can't solve this
issue by simply upgrading the host.

Regards,

Daniel



1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740517

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On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 19:10 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> If somebody is still running wheezy for their dom0 (host) environment
> and they are using jessie or other systems with grub2 in their VMs, they
> can't boot their VM.
> 
> A rather trivial 1-line fix in the dom0 (host) system fixes the problem.
> 
> Please advise if the release team would accept an upload to old-stable
> adding the following 1-line patch:
> 
>
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=783346;filename=GrubConf.py-jessie.patch;att=1
Given that xen-utils-4.1 only exists on architectures that are covered
by wheezy-lts, is there a good reason not to handle the change via that
route? We're working towards EOLing wheezy now so generally aren't
taking new updates.

Regards,

Adam

On 14/05/16 19:35, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 19:10 +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> If somebody is still running wheezy for their dom0 (host) environment
>> and they are using jessie or other systems with grub2 in their VMs,
they
>> can't boot their VM.
>>
>> A rather trivial 1-line fix in the dom0 (host) system fixes the
problem.
>>
>> Please advise if the release team would accept an upload to old-stable
>> adding the following 1-line patch:
>>
>>
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;bug=783346;filename=GrubConf.py-jessie.patch;att=1
> 
> Given that xen-utils-4.1 only exists on architectures that are covered
> by wheezy-lts, is there a good reason not to handle the change via that
> route? We're working towards EOLing wheezy now so generally aren't
> taking new updates.
> 
If I understand the LTS wiki correctly, users don't need to make any
extra effort to get the package from LTS, so I think that strategy
sounds fine

Can anybody else comment, is there any reason not to do it this way?

This appears to be the page with LTS instructions for releasing the fix:

https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development