Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:09:08PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> 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.
Indeed.
> 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.
Ack.
Cheers,
Moritz
Reply to: