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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 10:54 +0000, 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. 

IMHO the right way to provide this is for that someone to provide
regular snapshot packages based on the distro packaging. Even better
would be to work with the distro package maintainers and use the
facilities which they provide e.g. Debian's Experimental distro. This
has the added advantages of helping the distros to have 4.3 packages
more quickly after 4.3 is released as well as helping the distro instead
of duplicating their effort.

Of course this is all just hand waving unless someone steps, and when
they do it is up to them how they achieve the goal.

Ian.


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