Re: [Xen-devel] Xen4.2 debian packaging

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 15:26 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

> > 4.2.0 is already in Debian experimental.
> 
> There might be many reasons why one would want to roll his own packages
> rather than using a distro package.

Then start from the distro package, it's not that hard.

> Given that we already have a deb target, it doesn't cost as much to add
> a second one, that is actually useful.

There is a cost though, because once you start saying this is a user
focused thing which users should actually use then they will do so. A
proper package (especially of something like Xen) which integrates well
with the distro is a lot of work, which should rightly be happening in
the distro.

If the existing deb target is going to be the thin end of the wedge of
doing more and more packaging work in the Xen tree itself then I would
rather we just removed it.

Ian.


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