On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:03:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > > What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change > > > > before the release? > > > > It will ship the hypervisor and a domU kernel. For dom0 it will need > > > either the etch or my own[1] kernel. This may be changed later if we can > > > get a new kernel in the stable release. > > > The problem I see with that is that people will be left without a > > supported dom0 kernel at some point during the etch lifetime. Do we have > > a plan to address that? Shouldn't we make it clear that we will support > > the etch kernel until a lenny+1/2 kernel is available, for example? > > Which "we" do you expect will support it? I haven't heard any comments from > the security team indicating that they're willing to provide support for > such a stale kernel beyond the normal support lifetime of etch. If there > should happen not to be a lenny+1/2 kernel, how long would the security team > be expected to provide security support for 2.6.18? Until the release of > lenny+1? Until the end of the *lenny* support cycle? > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to ship a linux 2.6.18 kernel in lenny, only > > for dom0, so it's clear that it is supported? > > I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* > supported... > I think that the prudent thing for Debian to do is to continue to support the older kernel if that is the only way to ensure Xen support for the users. I personally have a few servers running Xen that run stable. If the support for Xen in a stable release is not suitable, I would have to consider migrating those servers to some other distro. I would really hate to have to do that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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