[Xen-users] Debian dropping xen support?

[Tony Hoyle <tmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was trying to recompile a module and needed the kernel source.. but it 
wasn't to be found in the debian archives at all - it's like it had 
vanished off the face of the planet.  The old 2.6.18 code is there but 
as that doesn't support newer motherboards it's no use to me.  I can
find no official statement but this single line from the kernel 
maintainer (at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418783)
"2.6.20 is dropped from the archive and no xen support exists in newer
kernels."  That's it.  No mention of support being 'delayed' or anyting, 
just no support.
That reads to me as if xen is dead on debian.. without kernel support 
it's pretty useless.  Any ideas why they took this decision?  There's 
nothing on the debian development archives that I can see.
It's left me hosed - I can't build a device driver without headers and 
they deleted all the xen related 2.6.20 kernel packages without warning, 
so I'm left with a kernel I can't build drivers for without going 
outside the package management system and handcrafting my own (something 
I used to do but it's too frought with error.. haven't done it for a 
long while now).
Tony

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