On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 10:33 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 05:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 06:27 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:18:56AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > I think this is just like missing hardware support, which we consider an > > > > important bug. And it's also a regression in support. > > > > > > There is no hardware involved. > > > > If some relatively unchangeable VM environment can only boot > > gzip-compressed kernels then using xz compression means we don't support > > that 'hardware'. > > FWIW I think this is a sensible way to think of it. > > > > > I don't know whether it is important enough to justify using less > > > > efficient compression, but AWS is a very popular platform. > > > > > > AWS even provides pre-built PV-GRUB with support for XZ[1], so apart > > > from a menu.lst nothing else is needed. > > > > OK, so maybe we should provide a NEWS entry or other documentation that > > this is now required. > > Yes, I think that would be good. OK, please can someone provide text for this? Note it will need to go in the meta-packages built by linux-latest, not the kernel image packages themselves, because apt-showchanges never shows NEWS for a new binary package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, `Good Omens'
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