Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS
Hi,
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:30:35PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:21:13PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 May 2016, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > I'm not sure that I follow what you say here. You suggest to update qemu
> > in wheezy to the version currently in jessie? Is that correct?
>
> No, I recommend to EOL src:qemu/qemu-kvm in wheezy (the bits relevant to src:xen are
> somewhat isolated and can be backported from the Xen Security announcements)
> Backporting jessie's qemu will end up in a similar situation as the experiments
> with libav.
I don't think so. We already have the version of Jessie in Wheezy
backports and I've looked into the dependency list. See
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/04/msg00002.html
so this should be doable…
> Anyone running a virtualisation server based on KVM/qemu is much better off
> with upgrading to jessie.
…although I agree here too. One exception would be people relying on it
on the desktop for e.g. sandboxing or running proprietary OSes but then
QEMU in Wheezy is not really fit for this either.
So supporting Xen and targetting QEMU/KVM for Jessie LTS makes most sense
to me.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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