Comment 82 for bug 378240

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote : Re: [Bug 378240] Re: Please merge xen 4.0.1-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

On 03/07/2011 10:50 PM, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> I can forward the fixes to Debian, but both of the patches
> originate from upstream and they are pulled to Debian anyway later
> on. So unless we can justify a freeze exception for the package
> there is little point in overloading the Debian maintainers.
>
> Renaming the source is only natural, since Debian already uses xen
> as the source package name. As for libvirt, the dependency on 3.3
> is a build time dependency and my version of libvirt changes that
> (and that way reverts the package closer to the debian original).
>
> In any case, I'll start preparing the debdiffs and exception
> request.

My point was that it might be easier to get it in without changing
libvirt and working on that next cycle.

Micah