Hello, On Sat 07 Dec 2024 at 12:58pm +01, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> Yes, we need some assistance. Thank you for the write-up. Santiago, maybe we should add a link to this thread to packages.yml, or something like that? What do you think? > The situation regarding the packages is: > * We have a Xen 4.19 package ready, that has been tested. > * ==> We need a sponsor to upload it to experimental as NEW <== > * We can then prepare an up-to-date 4.19 for unstable. > * And then... we can again continue doing the 4.17 (security-)updates > for stable. Cool, I will sponsor the upload, can you confirm the repository and branch that you consider ready-to-go ? > The current situation regarding the Debian Xen team is: > * Currently that's Maximilian and me. (I'm a DM) > * We're a dedicated team, we do manage, but we're also not enormously > high on excess bandwidth. I mean, we can't do a lot of the 'nice to haves'. Describes plenty of teams in Debian. I like to think it means you don't spend time on things that are not-really-nice-to-have-but-feel-like-they-are :) > In general, what we could really use for assistance is a bit of a safety > net for certain situations. Like, a few (DD) people who we know and who > know about us and what we do, and who we can contact if needed, and who > can help with various topics, like sponsoring uploads if needed, help > with packaging tooling, navigating non-trivial package transitions, > complex makefile/build/library-dependency/etc stuff... When it's a matter of these major version transitions and you are close to running out of time for the next stable release of Debian, I think you could always get in touch with debian-lts@lists.d.o and there is a good chance someone is available to help (me in this case). -- Sean Whitton
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