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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: Improve make deb



On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, George Dunlap wrote:
> What about this: We obviously have users who are keen to have this 
> functionality, and in fact who have made local versions of
> such functionality to use themselves. If one of them is willing to step up 
> and officially maintain such functionality (which
> would include responding to bugs and updating things on a regular basis), 
> then I think we should consider accepting such a
> patch. If it ever becomes unmaintained, then we'll take it out. That way 
> the core devs won't have to be involved in package
> management, but early-adopters will have the benefit of being able to use Xen 
> more easily.


I think that is the right way of thinking. After all we even have a
differentiation between maintainers and committers exactly for this sort
of cases (even though right now we aren't using it much).

So the question is, would anybody step up to maintain a proper deb build
target?
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