On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:17:19PM +0100, Suno Ano wrote: > currently (January 2010) mainline is in development for the .33 release, > .32 is stable and used by most Linux Distributions like for example > Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, etc. > > >>From what it looks now Debian and Ubuntu are going into freeze for their > next stable release in March 2010. Will there be an up-to-date OpenVZ > kernel patch available by then? Debian is targeting to ship .32 with > their next stable release called squeeze. > > In case OpenVZ will not be available on at least one of the major Linux > distributions and its offsprings, no need to mention how horrid that > would be ...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00003.html said OpenVZ will remain supported, but and http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/msg00233.html had previously went unanswered and I don't see anything new at http://packages.debian.org/linux-image-2.6-openvz-686 I'm thinking the most usable compromise would be if someone volunteered to maintain the Debian packages of the actual kernel stable release 2.6.27 - where the meaning of "stable" more closely corresponds to the Debian "stable" release concept. For off-the-shelf usage, mainline releases can satisfy the same definition, but for corner cases it's doubtful because they tend to move too fast for people to track them reliably. I have to mention that Xen has a similar problem - there are XCI 2.6.27 patches which seem to be maintained, whereas it's doubtful anyone really wants to continue forward-porting the old branch to .32. Xen upstream do have an advanced paravirt_ops dom0 branch (it's much further along than LXC vs. OpenVZ, judging by the LXC description in this thread), but it would still be a regression compared to the old branch for some people who use some of those still-unimplemented features, so it's not a drop-in replacement yet. I'm Cc:ing Adrian Bunk - given that you initated the marking of .27 as "the real stable", and Greg KH is still maintaining .27 upstream, I can't help but wonder if you might be willing to maintain those packages? :) Also Cc:'ing the debian-kernel mailing list. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org