Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

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Subject: Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:38:29 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1286735657.2955.216.camel@localhost> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:34:17 +0100")
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Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> Correct.  We try hard to avoid ABI breakage after a freeze and in stable
> updates and we have so far succeeded with the 'standard' images, but we
> have given up on a stable ABI for the OpenVZ and Xen featuresets.
> Unfortunately we currently use a single ABI number across all image
> packages so there is no indication of when the ABI changes for them.

Thanks!  I'll get those kernel module builds removed before squeeze
releases.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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