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Bug#457652: marked as done (linux-2.6: Please package lguest launcher)

Your message dated Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:43:21 +0100
with message-id <1340559801.741.22.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: linux-2.6: Please package lguest launcher
has caused the Debian Bug report #457652,
regarding linux-2.6: Please package lguest launcher
to be marked as done.

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Package: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist

The lguest launcher is needed to use the new lguest hypervisor included since
2.6.23 in the mainstream kernel.

The sources are in Documentation/lguest (lguest.c and a makefile).

Compiling requires the kernel tree and config file so it (IMHO) makes sense
to do it while building the rest of the kernel.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Sorry, we're not going to do this.  In fact, we'll be removing the
incomplete lguest support instead.  It's not a production virtualisation
system, more an example for developers to experiment with.  And in
general, we don't enable features that are intended specifically for use
by kernel developers, as they will build their own kernel images.

As you may know, kernel-package has support for building an lguest
package.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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