Re: Wheezy update of qemu-kvm?

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi,
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:19:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 22:33 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > Hi Ben
> > 
> > I can see the following note:
> > [wheezy] - qemu  (Not supported in Wheezy LTS)
> > [wheezy] - qemu-kvm  (Not supported in Wheezy LTS)
> > 
> > Don't this mean that we should not update this package?
> 
> There has been discussion of dropping support for QEMU in Wheezy LTS,
> as we did for Squeeze, and I can understand why that may me a sensible
> decision.
> 
> However, no decision has been announced, nor is any EOL date listed in
> debian-security-support:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-security-support.git/tree/security-support-ended.deb7
> So I don't understand on what basis these issues have been marked EOL.

I do agree it should not have been EOLed yet but given the feedback to

    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/04/msg00002.html

I'll EOL qemu/qemu-kvm by the end of the week by adding it to
security-support-ended and sending a short announcement. O.k.?

Cheers,
 -- Guido