[Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#837920: user-mode-linux should be built directly by src:linux

[Mattia Dongili]

Thanks for opening this bug.
Building UML as part of the regular kernel release has been on my todo list for years now (including making a real attempt with patch long ago - didn't get much attention then).

My employer will soon sponsor some work in this area, I hope I can get a step closer at addressing this bug then.

-- 
mattia
:wq

> On 2016/09/15, at 7:09, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> 
> Package: user-mode-linux
> Version: 4.7-1um-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> A separate source package for user-mode-linux made sense 15 years ago,
> when a huge patch of non-upstreamed kernel code existed for user-mode-linux.
> 
> What is left today in the user-mode-linux source package are 6 small
> patches to UML-specific code (2 or 3 of them look Debian-specific)
> and the kernel configurations for i386 and amd64.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any good reason left for a separate source
> package, and this would also bring DSA fixes for stretch kernels
> automatically to the user-mode-linux kernel.
>