Xen devel - Jan 2010 - RFS: xen-qemu-dm (new package)

Hi,

I believe the package is ready:

http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/lenny/main/x/xen-qemu-dm-3.4/xen-qemu-dm-3.4_3.4.2-1.dsc

I asked Ian Jackson to sponsor it (he works for Citrix and is a DD), but
it's been 2 weeks, and he seems busy with work.

I'd be glad if someone was sponsoring the upload of this package in
Debian SID, soon enough so that people will be able to test it before
Squeeze is out.

A bit of information about this package:

- I have asked stuffs and got answers about them form the xen-devel list
and the person responsible for the Xen qemu-dm (Stefano Stabellini
<stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>), and got answers to all of them

- my package is using the start of a package that Bastian gave to me.
It's lintian clean, and I believe it is production ready.

- Christian Motschke <christian at motschke.de> tested it, and reported it
is working as expected with Xen 3.4.

- There's currently a dependency to qemu-system as it holds the keymaps.
I asked however that the keymaps are shipped separately, in a smaller
package, so that my package has a smaller installed footprint. Until
then, I believe it's fine to depend on qemu-system (even if it pulls too
much things, it's not really bothering).

Thomas

P.S: By the way, are there plans to have Xen 4.0.0 included in Squeeze,
is it already too late, or too early to be able to tell? Maybe in
Experimental? If I'm not mistaking, there's also a new version of Qemu
for Xen that would be needed.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:48:41PM +0800, Thomas Goirand
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe the package is ready:
> 
>
http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/lenny/main/x/xen-qemu-dm-3.4/xen-qemu-dm-3.4_3.4.2-1.dsc
> 
> I asked Ian Jackson to sponsor it (he works for Citrix and is a DD), but
> it's been 2 weeks, and he seems busy with work.
> 
> I'd be glad if someone was sponsoring the upload of this package in
> Debian SID, soon enough so that people will be able to test it before
> Squeeze is out.
> 
> A bit of information about this package:
> 
> - I have asked stuffs and got answers about them form the xen-devel list
> and the person responsible for the Xen qemu-dm (Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini at eu.citrix.com>), and got answers to all of
them
> 
> - my package is using the start of a package that Bastian gave to me.
> It's lintian clean, and I believe it is production ready.
> 
> - Christian Motschke <christian at motschke.de> tested it, and
reported it
> is working as expected with Xen 3.4.
> 
> - There's currently a dependency to qemu-system as it holds the
keymaps.
> I asked however that the keymaps are shipped separately, in a smaller
> package, so that my package has a smaller installed footprint. Until
> then, I believe it's fine to depend on qemu-system (even if it pulls
too
> much things, it's not really bothering).
> 
> Thomas
> 
> P.S: By the way, are there plans to have Xen 4.0.0 included in Squeeze,
> is it already too late, or too early to be able to tell? Maybe in
> Experimental? If I'm not mistaking, there's also a new version of
Qemu
> for Xen that would be needed.
> 
Yeah, Xen 4.0 uses a newer version of qemu-dm, with more patches.

Changelogs here:

qemu-xen-unstable for xen-unstable (upcoming Xen 4.0):
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb?p=qemu-xen-unstable.git;a=summary

qemu-xen-3.4-testing for xen-3.4-testing (Xen 3.4.x releases):
http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb?p=qemu-xen-3.4-testing.git;a=summary

-- Pasi

Thomas Goirand, le Tue 19 Jan 2010 17:48:41 +0800, a ?crit
:
> I believe the package is ready:
> 
>
http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/lenny/main/x/xen-qemu-dm-3.4/xen-qemu-dm-3.4_3.4.2-1.dsc
It surely is not

??dpkg-buildpackage -B  
...
make: Nothing to be done for `binary-arch'.

 :)

Could you also add the libbrlapi-dev build dependency?  It will be
useful for blind people.

Samuel