Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> writes: > On 25/04/13 20:23, micah wrote: >> >> Hi Carlos, >> >> Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> writes: >> >>> So please: update the package to a newer upstream version. >> >> util-vserver was removed from wheezy as was the kernel support. It is >> not surprising that this version doesn't work, it only worked with >> squeeze. At this stage, it will not be included in wheezy at all. >> > > I'm already aware of that. But that don't means that this should not be > fixed on sid isn't it?
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were trying this in sid. Yes, you are right. >> If you are interested in doing work on the user-space utilities in >> Debian, or doing the work to provide the support in the kernel, it would >> be welcome. >> > > In this case, upgrading the package to the newer upstream version is > quite easy. > > I could provide a .dsc with the changes required if you want, but I > don't think I did nothing special about it. I just put the debian/ > directory of the old package on the new upstream tarball, updated the > changelog and cleaned debian/patches/* Yes, and testing it I guess helps. There is a debian svn repository for util-vserver that would also need to be updated (or moved to git and then updated). >> With your permission, I'd like to close this bug. >> > > I don't think this is an appropriate approach to deal with this problem. > I rather would ask you to remove the package util-vserver from Debian > sid completely than to have it in a broken state. Well, that is what I was planning on doing - removing it from sid. Without the kernel support available, I was thinking I will give up the package entirely. I used to provide kernel patch packages, but I am going to attempt to migrate away from Linux-Vservers now, even though I like them more than the current alternatives. So, the question then becomes... would you like to maintain this package in Debian? It would be quite useful for people to have an active maintainer of the user-space utilities in Debian, in my opinon. However, I can no longer be that person. I would however be able to sponsor package uploads, if you, or someone else, would be interested and wanting to do that work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
