On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:18:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > What are the plans for Xen for lenny? Is this situation likely to change > > > before the release?
> > It will ship the hypervisor and a domU kernel. For dom0 it will need > > either the etch or my own[1] kernel. This may be changed later if we can > > get a new kernel in the stable release. > The problem I see with that is that people will be left without a > supported dom0 kernel at some point during the etch lifetime. Do we have > a plan to address that? Shouldn't we make it clear that we will support > the etch kernel until a lenny+1/2 kernel is available, for example? Which "we" do you expect will support it? I haven't heard any comments from the security team indicating that they're willing to provide support for such a stale kernel beyond the normal support lifetime of etch. If there should happen not to be a lenny+1/2 kernel, how long would the security team be expected to provide security support for 2.6.18? Until the release of lenny+1? Until the end of the *lenny* support cycle? > Wouldn't it be a good idea to ship a linux 2.6.18 kernel in lenny, only > for dom0, so it's clear that it is supported? I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* supported... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
