Hello, the (chilly) Release Team! ;) I'm asking for a freeze exception for the package named qemu-kvm, and a companion transitional package kvm, which were in -unstable for 10 days already.
Current package in testing is 0.12.4+dfsg-1. The unstable currently has 0.12.5+dfsg-1. As it can be seen, this is next upstream version. But this is not actually upstream version, it's upstream stable/bugfix release, which incorporates only bugfixes found since previous bugfix release 0.12.4, on which the previous debian release is based. It is like the upstream kernel "minor" releases, like 2.6.32.y. So I hope it is okay not to name the new debian release using the old 0.12.4 upstream version... ;) So we've two set of changes in the version currently in debian unstable: this is upstream changes, and debian changes. The whole set of changes can be seen in collab-maint git tree: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/qemu-kvm.git . There were no single "feature" or even "functional" difference, only fixes for bugs, some of them are quite serious like data corruption or usefulness of the package for some valid usages. (The git tree contains one attempted change to reorder startup scripts, which should fix one whishlist bug in debian, but all the relevant changes were reverted for squeeze). qemu-kvm is a virtual machine. The bugs fixed in the version in -unstable are: important bugs: #582493 - data corruption #589009 - crash under network load #580649 - migration to another host does not work normal/cosmetic bugs: #591266 - non-working mouse in some guests #583590 - cosmetic - don't produce error message on every exit #578672 - don't disable screensaver functionality when qemu-kvm is running #578672 - non-working keyboard for some languages plus a few other unreported bugs. Also, this version ships a few new documentation files for some stuff that went undocumented so far. I'm kindly ask to let this version into squeeze. Thank you for the good work! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c6d8dae.4070...@msgid.tls.msk.ru
