On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 12:46 PM Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 11:32:59AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 11:28 AM Héctor Orón Martínez > > <hector.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > El mar, 9 may 2023, 9:51, Andrea Righi <andrea.ri...@canonical.com> > > > escribió: > > >> > > >> 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. > > > > > > > > > I suggest we evaluate switching upstream from virtme to virtme-ng, on the > > > Debian virtme package. I would not mind if you want to be added as > > > uploader for the package. > > > > > > Ricardo has been working on virtme. What do you think? > > > > SGTM. Maybe we can send an email out of courtesy to the old virtme author. > > All good to me as well! I already sent an email to the virtme author > (Andrew Lutomirski) to inform him that I was forking the project, but I > didn't get any response.
That sounds good. > > Maybe I can try to ping him again and see if he's also happy about this > plan. May I suggest that when you ping them, tell them about the plans to replace virtme with virtme-ng on Debian and put me on cc? Thanks! > > -Andrea
