Subject: Re: [vserver] Debian Support
From: Christoph Lukas <christoph.lukas@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:39:25 +0200

Hi Ben,

> 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.
> 
> "...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.  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."
> 
> Personally I was really hoping to see a better quality Linux-Vserver  
> support in Debian this time, so sad news.

Indeed sad news. 

> Anyone else any feelings about this? Any chance of a rescue attempt?

As you might know, I am trying to maintain ubuntu vserver kernel images
at [1]. 

If you think about maintaining a Debian Linux-VServer kernel image we
could probably join efforts.

Cheers,
Christoph

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~christoph-lukas/+archive/ppa