Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Luk, > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:40:09PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >> Guido Günther wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:52:47PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >>> [..snip..] >>>> So including the one in unstable is probably not going to happen. >>>> Removing 0.4.4 because you're too lame to fix an easy RC bug is also not >>> Thanks a lot for your kindness. I first requested the move of 0.4.6 to >>> Lenny about 6 weeks ago. Nobody even bothered to reply, not to that mail >>> nor to any of the followups. >> Sorry, though you send mixed signals and expect us to review a very >> large diff... > I tried to offer choice a while back (going with either 0.4.4 or > 0.4.6) - sorry if this came across as mixed signals. > >>>> an option to me... so feel free to propose a tpu upload that would fix >>>> the RC bug as well as this security issue. >>> Every bug in the BTS that affected 0.4.6 affects 0.4.4 - there's really >>> no point in keeping 0.4.4. Please pull it from testing and let's release >>> without libvirt. >> What were these about: >> >> "Should there be any problems we can easily pull back to 0.4.4" > This just meant: 0.4.6 is ABI compatible to 0.4.4 but *should* there be > any incompatibility we can switch back to 0.4.4. > >> "0.4.4 currently has an (though easy to fix) RC bug, so if the changes >>>> for 0.4.6 are to intrusive please remove 0.4.4 from Lenny to get rid of >>>> this issue." >> Can you please explain what bugs in 0.4.4 are critical enough to not >> consider a backported fix and remove libvirt from the release, TIA. > Here's a quick list of bugs fixed in 0.4.6-10 but not in 0.4.4-3: > > RC: > #509106 - CVE-2008-5086 > #481619 - libvirtd loses connection to domain if started two times > (crashes the running domain) > #507553 - missing logfile rotation (overflows the disk easily when > running colltectd or munin) > #507578 - doesn't work with /var/run on tmpfs > [c07c68f] - prefer xenstoraged driver for listDomains - avoids seeing > "ghost domains" due to bugs in several versions of the xen HV, > without this libvirt isn't usable with lenny's xen > [87fc2db] - don't let suspend/resume fail silently (possible data loss) > upstream - fix qemu media connect/eject to work with latest syntax. Add > support > for ejecting floppy devices and scsi cdroms including a fix > for a daemon crash (possible data loss) > upstream - fixes several crashes in the storage backend (possible data > loss) > > Important: > #507608 - serial console with kvm/qemu doesn't work > #499718 - fails to install windows (fixed in 0.4.6, but we didn't > identify the commit that fixed this) > #507547 - don't fail if no hypervisor is given in the domain's xml > > Normal: > #499720 - fails to install VMs from CD/DVD > #495950 - assumes kvm can't do smp > #505607 - fix compilation with gcc 4.4 > [06dbe8a] - working domain block stats for virtio and scsi devices > upstream - usb device passthrough > upstream - domU shutdown fixes > > [.......] are git commits which can be browsed at > https://honk.sigxcpu.org/cl2vcs/index.cgi?pkg=libvirt > > Hope this helps.
Certainly, it places everything finally in a better perspective. unblocked Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
