Re: Fixes to Etch kernel for use in a Xen domain 0
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:25:30PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> > - Full support, which currently noone wants to handle.
> One plus for #4 is that it gives us the option of doing #5 later, in
> case someone steps forward between now and the end of etch support.
Yes.
> > I know its not really pretty, but for now its the best we can get IMHO.
>
> If we choose to migrate users within a stable release, we'd need to have
> some predetermined overlap between lennynhalf availability and 2.6.18
> security support so we can communicate to users that, at some point in
> the future, they will be asked to migrate and they'll have n months to
> do so.
>
> We would also need a pretty good communication plan, that is ideally
> in-band of the normal install/upgrade process. For example:
> 1) 5.0r0: NEWS.Debian that warns of the shorter-than-normal security
> support
I also needs to be mentioned in the release notes, which anyone should
read. NEWS.Debian is ignored often.
> 2) 5.0+half: NEWS.Debian that gives a N month warning to migrate to
> lennynhalf kernel
I would use debconf.
> 2) 5.0+half+N-months: NEWS.Debian that warns that they are installing
> an unsupported package
I would just replace it with a dummy package which fails in preinst, so
it can never be configured, but will not remove the old data on upgrade.
Bastian
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