Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 09:40:42AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2016, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > I would rather see qemu supported, in other words. But the version in
> > > wheezy is really old, and in xen/wheezy even more so.
> >
> > AFAIK Xen in Wheezy is using the version shipped with Xen itself and we
> > have gathered extra support for this so dropping QEMU/KVM in Wheezy
> > shouldn't have any negative effects on Xen.
>
> Or maybe we should see it the other way around... if the Xen suppport
> contract means that qemu has to be maintained as part of it, maybe that
> support contract could be extended to qemu/kvm for little cost?
AFAIK Xen uses only parts of the QEMU codebase. I'm not convinced that
supporting the current Wheezy versions of QEMU for two more years is of
much use (in contrast to the version currently in Jessie) compared to
the effort of backporting security fixes.
> Maybe we should ask credativ.
…or update QEMU?
-- Guido
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
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