[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#712234: user-mode-linux: build-depends on linux-source-3.2

Mattia Dongili malattia at linux.it
Sun Oct 20 14:33:48 UTC 2013


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:15:59PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> writes:
> > Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> writes:
> >> user-mode-linux build-depends on linux-source-3.2 which is no longer
> >> available in unstable.
> >
> > That's still the case. And user-mode-linux in testing/unstable now seems
> > to get security updates via stable as well...
> >
> >   user-mode-linux | 3.2-2um-1+deb7u1 | unstable | source, amd64, i386
> 
> And nothing has changed so far, except more updates to testing/unstable
> that arrived via stable:
> 
>   user-mode-linux |        3.2-2um-1+deb7u2 |   unstable | source
>   user-mode-linux |     3.2-2um-1+deb7u2+b1 |   unstable | amd64, i386
> 
> I'm considering to request removal as the package doesn't seem to be
> maintained any longer. There are three reverse dependencies that would

Apologies for the delay, I just uploaded a package based on 3.11.

Unfortunatly the way UML is built right now is far from ideal as it's a
separate package from linux-image and friends and so it's a lot of
chasing and rebuilding.
Trying to integrate the package with the debian kernel build system
requires time that I currently don't have.
-- 
mattia
:wq!



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