Hi, I do not speak for Ubuntu (I'm the currently the upstream developer and Debian package maintainer), but I probably know the answers to your questions anyway.
udosoft wrote: > why is http://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.1.tar.gz > not an option? Because * it has been orphaned by its original author (Steve Kemp), and therefore * it has been removed from Debian unstable and testing, * it has many unfixed bugs, in Ubuntu as well as in Debian, * it has not seen any commits or bugfixes since 15 months, * it can't install any of the recent Ubuntu releases. > why we need the 4.2rc1? Because that version * fixes many of these bugs, * will support current releases, * will be in Debian unstable soon, * has an active maintainer upstream (me). I can't imagine any reason why the release team would include a unsupported and horribly buggy 4.1 for LTS. And the chance that they will include a software in LTS which is still in development (4.2) and hasn't been in Beta 2 is IMHO very, very small. Additionally, to my knowledge nobody has really tried to get xen-tools in 10.04 -- and I won't do, because of the above given reasons. So if someone thinks to use that extremly small chance, that someone should take the appropriate steps because that extremly small chance is getting much smaller each day. I think the correct way to offer it for 10.04 LTS is via backports or a PPA. But also in that case I would need some Ubuntu users for caring and testing the package on Ubuntu and the PPA respectively backports. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- xen-tools is not available in lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538917 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
