Pkg xen devel - Jan 2018 - Xen 4.10 for Debian experimental

Hi Ian,

can you please review and sponsor the upload of a first Xen 4.10 package
to experimental?

The work which has been done to arrive at this point from the previous
4.8 packages is visible at:
  https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/commits/master

The only commit which is not in master yet is the actual package release:

https://salsa.debian.org/xen-team/debian-xen/commit/7f8ce30800d9a29b3f4a9ad0a88e18c02dd65212

The source package built from that commit, and signed with my GPG key,
is available at:
  https://syrinx.knorrie.org/~knorrie/xen/

If the package gets accepted, I'll merge that commit, and put a tag on it.

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The current state of the package is "Step 1. Make it work". Besides
fixing everything that was needed to make the package build and do
useful things after changing to 4.10 upstream, no further changes have
been introduced yet.

However, there are already a bunch of ideas floating around and being
worked on for "Step 2. Make it beautiful" by various people, like
reviewing the init scripts, think about needed qemu changes, cleanups
(e.g. old xm related stuff), better support for driver domains, command
line completion for xl, thinking about what would be needed to support
live patching in Debian etc...

I guess that the main next hurdle to get a new package in unstable is to
align with the Debian qemu team for a transition plan to get qemu
adjusted, so HVM can also be used again?

Also, as can be seen above, I moved the git repository I was working in
to Debian Salsa, since I haven't seen any objection to my previous
emails on the list with the proposal to do so. In a few minutes, I'll
send a separate mail with some thoughts about how to use the shiny new
tools with the team.

Thanks,
Hans

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Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Xen 4.10 for Debian
experimental"):
> can you please review and sponsor the upload of a first Xen 4.10 package
> to experimental?
Sure.  I imagine I will get to this RSN.

FYI, please CC my personal email address
ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk.  Although I work on Debian's Xen
package on work time, my Citrix corporate email does not work
sufficiently well so messages should go to both.

Ian.

On 01/30/2018 12:06 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Xen 4.10 for Debian experimental"):
>> can you please review and sponsor the upload of a first Xen 4.10
package
>> to experimental?
> 
> Sure.  I imagine I will get to this RSN.
Any ETA? I'd like to keep the train rolling...

We looked at the qemu situation, and it seems it only needs a rebuild of
the package to pick up a new Xen if it's in unstable, since the builddep
is not versioned.

That would mean that if we give them a heads-up we could as well
directly target unstable soon.
> FYI, please CC my personal email address
> ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk.  Although I work on Debian's Xen
> package on work time, my Citrix corporate email does not work
> sufficiently well so messages should go to both.
Ok, I just took it because it's your one listed in Uploaders.

Hans