The package is not in etch at all so there is not point asking for its removal. In any case the way to ask for a package removal from testing is by a bug report to ftp-masters, this is detailed in the maintainer manuals.
I never had a plan for KVM to be in etch, it came too late and is still in early development stage IMO. Since 2.6.20 will have KVM I expect KVM to be available in the next Debian release Lenny, whenever that happens to be. A backport will obviously be possible but will mean backporting a kernel as well. Baruch * Leonard Norrg??rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070114 11:34]: > Package: kvm > Version: 7-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > > The version of kvm currently in testing, kvm-7, has many known stability bugs > that have > been fixed in later upstream versions. These cause the guest operating > system to crash, > possibly causing data loss etc. The following Google search provides a brief > overview of > the number of patches and severity of these bugs, of which none is entered in > the Debian > BTS: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=linux-kernel+PATCH+KVM+%22Avi+Kivity%22+site%3Alkml.org > > Another factor is that the current maintainer is currently sick. I have been > in touch with > him and prepared an upgraded package [1] based on the current upstream > kvm-11, which could > in theory be used for Etch, but Etch is of course frozen. The amount of > changes in > upstream is big by release standards. > > I see two solutions (both are fine with me): > > 1) Remove kvm-7 from Etch > > or 2) Upgrade kvm to kvm-11, if okayed by the release team and pending > sponsoring > > (While not really a factor in the decision, kvm-11 also includes major > performance > improvements, the MMU optimization, described as "the difference between a > working proof > of concept and a generally usable system" [2] The last patch set [3] fixes > the known > problems exposed by the MMU optimization and is included in kvm-11, although > not yet > applied in Linux-2.6.20-rc5.) > > [1] My kvm-11 package will be uploaded to mentors.debian.net today or > tomorrow for > review and sponsoring. > [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/175 > [3] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/11/51 > Cheers, Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
