Hello Debian developers, around 2006 Ian wrote the autopkgtest-xenlvm [1] testbed for autopkgtest, which contains some scripts to set up LVM and XEN to provide ephemeral test beds for autopkgtest. However, Ian stopped developing autopkgtest many years ago, and currently I'm the only maintainer.
These days we have several much simpler alternatives to the rather complicated Xen/LVM setup, with schroots, LXC, and QEMU all providing ephemeral testbed overlays without much effort or requirements to the host system. I never used -xenlvm or have heard from anyone who does (except Ian of course), so I don't even know whether it's still working. If anyone is still using this, can you please get in contact with autopkgtest-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org and tell us the status of it? Would you like to continue maintaining/testing it? If nobody is interested in this any more, I'd like to drop the package. It's been a bit of a maintenance drag as it prevents us from doing changes to the testbed protocol (which really could do with some major simplifications and bug fixes). Thank you, Martin [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/autopkgtest-xenlvm -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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