Re: [vserver] Debian Support

From: Christoph Lukas <christoph.lukas_at_gmx.net>
Date: Tue 29 Sep 2009 - 13:39:25 BST
Message-Id: <1254227965.11030.33.camel@hoss.staad.pingworks.net>

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
Received on Tue Sep 29 13:39:37 2009

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