On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:08:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Related to the above also: I even asked the Xen team the request to add > the following 2 symlinks, that would have solve many issues in numerous > software:
What is "numerous software" and what are they doing with this internal und unstable interfaces? > I was told that it was a stupid thing, and my bug was tagged "wontfix". > I'd like to understand exactly WHY the packager took this decision. Because it declares the interface as public and therefor stable enough to not break now and then. > This makes absolutely no sense to me, and also, I don't think that being > a maintainer gives you the rights to decide for everyone using the > distribution. In Debian the maintainer have the power to decide this. However, they can be overwritten by the developers at all or the technical committee.[1] > This was a very big concern for us, and I was really > disappointed to see the reaction of the Debian Xen team, not considering > the report, and being quite unfriendly. Only a small amount of the people gets payed to do the job, most are volunteers. > Also, if there's no /usr/lib/xen, what is the point of having a > /etc/alternatives/xen-default? I'd like to understand. There is a /usr/lib/xen-default. This link is meant as a last resort fallback in case it can't decide which version to use.[2] So in theory you can use a handmade Xen with a prebuilt version of the userspace. Bastian [1]: http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution [2]: /usr/lib/xen-common/bin/xen-utils-version -- Each kiss is as the first. -- Miramanee, Kirk's wife, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org