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xen-meta package

  1. Bug #351943
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 351943

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Brett Sheffield (brett-gladserv) wrote :

This is the lack of a Xen kernel again:

root@gill:~# uname -a
Linux gill 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 02:45:36 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So, Ubuntu's not had a xen kernel since 8.04 (a year). If installing the one from Hardy works, then why is this not packaged as the default?

There is an expectation that installing ubuntu-xen-server will result in a working xen setup. By leaving broken dependencies (no xen kernel, and python2.5 missing) ubuntu is surprising it's users unecessarily.

There are two paths to fix this:

1) fix the dependencies

or

2) remove the ubuntu-xen-server package completely and the broken promise it represents.

Right now, I've got a choice of going back to 8.04 LTS where there are other very old bugs like
 #235773 Virt-install fails on Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Dom0 (amd64)

awaiting attention, or to try and cobble something together in Jaunty. I'd rather put my efforts towards supporting the new release I think.

Who's working on this, and can I get involved? I need it fixed and I'm willing to help.