Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > On 01/31/2012 10:37 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] >> If anyone wishes to volunteer to maintain VServer in Debian - you are >> very welcome, but please start by addressing the bugs filed against >> them in squeeze and reviewing the existing conflicts. If you can >> prove yourself by doing that, then you may convince me and the rest of >> the kernel team that you can maintain it in wheezy as well. >> Otherwise, no chance. >> >> The above all applies to OpenVZ as well, and what I've suggested to is >> that the interested developers maintain an APT repository of kernel >> packages for Debian using whichever version the OpenVZ project is >> prepared to support. Maybe the Linux-VServer project can do that too. > > I've tried to convince the linux-vserver developers on various ocassions > on irc to work together with a person of their choice from Debian to > maintain the patch for stable releases. But they are not willing to > support Debian as they neither use Debian nor have any interest in > supporting the Debian kernel.
Hmm, I do not agree on that representation of upstream's position. On the contrary, they are happy to not only port the Linux-Vserver patches to work with the Debian kernel's set of patches, but also keeping those kernels up-to-date, as long as they are working with someone in Debian who can do the 'debian-specific' work. Neither of the two active upstream developers use Debian as a host, so they would not be people who use the kernel or have any vested interest in it. Their position is that if someone inside Debian steps up to do the 'debian-specific' work, they have no problem working with that person with both an initial port to the Debian kernel, or keeping those kernels up-to-date. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehudjj6j....@algae.riseup.net
