Bug#699624: unblock: blcr/0.8.5-1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 21:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 13:15 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > One of our kernel maintainers indicated in that earlier discussion that
> > he doesn't believe the c/r functionality should be in an out-of-tree
> > module. Ben, I assume that's still the case?
> 
> What I meant was that checkpoint/resume necessarily depends on kernel
> interfaces that are not particularly stable and not designed to provide
> all the information needed, so the breakage of blcr kernel modules can
> be expected to happen again and to be difficult to fix.
> 
> But I don't want to stand in the way of an update to blcr that makes it
> work out of the box in Debian 7.0.  It will provide at least a stopgap
> until people can use CRIU (checkpoint/restore in userspace) which I
> expect to be more or less complete in Debian 8.0.

Thanks for the explanation / expansion.

Regards,

Adam