On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:01:39AM +0100, ben@bristolwireless.net wrote: > Hi all, > from some recent postings on the debian-kernel list by Ben Hutchings, > it looks like there has been a decision within Debian to deprecate > vserver images. first, I'm fine with that, the images provided got worse and worse, and the support/fixes were very sloppy, so they actually did a lot more harm than good to both the debian users and the Linux-VServer project > "...we only just got back and the official minutes have not been > sent out. > As I recall, we don't believe that either we or upstream will be able > to support vserver properly for the duration of squeeze. well, that sounds about wrong, unless squeeze is going to be the stable release for the next 10 years :) besides that I find it arrogant and annoying that debian folks 'declare the Linux-VServer project dead' and finally, it is 'Linux-VServer' not 'vserver' > If the upstream project provides a patch against the squeeze kernel > version then we can probably use it, but we will warn that it is not > fully supported and likely to be removed in the following release." from my side, I told the debian folks that I'm willing to help with integrating a patch if they decide to use a 'supported' kernel (to me it looked like 2.6.32, which should be fine) but that I do not want to maintain a debian flavor for free, and that they have to find somebody who maintains the debian Linux-VServer patch by adding the fixes and changes we do upstream ... > Personally I was really hoping to see a better quality Linux-Vserver > support in Debian this time, so sad news. > Anyone else any feelings about this? if that happens, I'm fine with it, if not, it's not really my problem as I do not use prebuilt kernel images anyway ... > Any chance of a rescue attempt? I'd say somebody has to stand up and start maintaining a debian specific kernel branch, my offer to help this person with the startup still stands ... best, Herbert > Cheers, > == > From Ben Green