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Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS



Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2015, 17:44 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
> > These need to be discussed, since they will be a significant
> > time drain (e.g. are they in the sponsors's interests?). They
> > are supportable, but it will take a lot of work and sometimes
> > special domain knowledge:

[snip]
> > qemu
> > qemu-kvm
[snip]
> > libvirt
[snip]

> Nobody commented here but I believe that we should aim to support
> them.

Then let me comment...

> Except vlc, they are all used by some of the current sponsors (even
> though
> they are not currently supported in squeeze).

Since I don't have a current package list on file, let me explicitly
mention that I consider these packages to be important for us.

Yet we could in theory live with backports of newer versions, as I
assume the problem is that these are packages that are not supported
upstream.  But I'm not sure how much that would buy, since the versions
of libvirt in sid and experimental are still rather old compared to
current versions upstream.

Note that testing them will be quite a hassle.  I'm not saying we
couldn't help, but I am saying that it would involve securing dedicated
infrastructure and applying lots of configuration changes to do
meaningful tests.  Something that could take us something in the order
of weeks for any test candidate.

Thank you!
David

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