On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:51:42AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:30:54AM +0200, Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > > Hello, > > > > virtme already exists in Debian, what would be the benefit of virtme-ng > > over virtme? > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/virtme > > > > Regards > > The original virtme project is not maintained anymore > (https://github.com/amluto/virtme), so we decided to fork the project > and continue the development / bug fixing in virtme-ng > (https://github.com/arighi/virtme-ng). > > Some people are already using and contributing to virtme-ng and there > are plans to package it in SuSE. > > Honestly I don't know what would be the right procedure to "obsolete" > the old virtme package and replace it virtme-ng (if possible), but > ideally it would be nice to do something like this. Any guidance or > suggestion is welcome. > > Once we have a package in Debian I can take care of providing a package > also in Ubuntu.
Moreover, it's worth mentioning that virtme-ng doesn't break the compatibility with virtme, meaning that all the commands and options that were available in virtme are also available in virtme-ng, so users can transition to virtme-ng without breaking their workflow. -Andrea
