On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:42:13AM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > I am emailing to ask your opinion on the likely hood of UML packages > making it into sarge/stable. > > We (the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) are experimenting with using > UML to manage multiple secure web servers on a single physical box, and > have been advised that Debian GNU/Linux is a very good OS to use for the > host machine, due to its management tools. We usually use Red Hat for > our systems so there would be a labour cost for us to adopt a different > distribution. > > We would need to use the stable branch of Debian for a production > system. However, if the transition from woody to sarge would mean that > there would no longer be UML packages in stable, we would have to use > something else. > > From a personal POV, I am a debian user and if debian was the best > choice for our needs, I'd be very happy to see it being used. What kind > of work is needed to get the UML packages sorted out? Is an NMU a > possibility?
UML upstream has been chaotic, and I haven't had the resources to keep it in shape in packaged form. A group of developers recently started an Alioth project for maintenance of UML-related packages, but I'm not sure where it stands as far as restoring usable UML packages to unstable. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
