On 26/04/13 16:38, micah wrote: > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> writes: >> 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. >
I'm in the same situation. I use both Debian and linux-vserver daily. Debian removed support for the vserver kernel flavor on wheezy. So I have to choose between: migrating from linux-vserver to LXC/OpenVZ or building my own kernels. LXC is not yet production ready from a security perspective. A root user on a LXC container can do very nasty things to the host system. OpenVZ faces the same fate than linux-vserver. Support for it got removed from Debian, so I would end in the same situation that I'm right now with linux-vserver. So the most reasonable option for me is building my own kernels with the vserver patchset and wait until LXC becomes at least as secure as vserver is. > 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. > I will happily sign for that. However I would like to migrate the package scm from svn to git. I have not experience packaging with svn and learning to do that now will be a backwards step IMHO. If you can add my alioth user (clopez-guest) to the pkg-vserver project and create a new empty git repository on alioth for pkg-vserver I can take care of migrating the svn repository to git (I already have experience doing this kind of migrations) and uploading the result there for review. Regards! --------
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