[pkg-eucalyptus-maintainers] Updating euca2ools to 1.3.1 ?

[Charles Plessy]

Dear all,

perhaps it is time to update euca2ools to 1.3.1 in Debian.  Among the points
that made me postpone this work, there is the large set of patches applied on
the Ubuntu package, that are not used by Eucalyptus to update euca2ools on
http://open.eucalyptus.com/downloads.  I do not have a good enough knowledge of
euca2ools to review these patches, and as a general philosophy in Debian, I do
not apply patches blindly.  Perhaps some of you remember the « OpenSSL
incident » (DSA-1571-1), that affected only Debian because of a local patch.

So I have two questions.

First, if I upgraded Debian's package to version 1.3.1, would it cause
significant difficulties to the current users of the package.  In particular,
we need to pay attention that at the next Debian stable release, in 2012 or
2013, the upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3.1 must be supported and as automatic as
possible.

Second, how critical are the patches appliend in Ubuntu and is there any plan
at Eucalyptus to apply or cherry-pick some of them to make a 1.3.2 update ?  Or
are these patches very Ubuntu-specific ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan