Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andrew M.A. Cater] > Which servers that lack hardware virtualisation support - pretty > much everything made in the last two or three years has it. For > servers, specifically, the likelihood is that - Lenny has a 2 year > life + 1 year, Squeeze has ? year life + 1 year - by the time you > get to

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 04:53:56PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi folks, > > There was a thread here a little while back about the status of Xen in > future Debian releases. It left me rather confused, and I'm hoping to > find some answers (which I will then happily document in the wiki). > > A

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 25, John Goerzen wrote: > 3) What will be our preferred Linux server virtualization option after > squeeze? Are we confident enough in the stability and performance of > KVM to call it such? (Last I checked, its paravirt support was of Yes. > rather iffy stability and performance, but I

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:53 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi folks, > > There was a thread here a little while back about the status of Xen in > future Debian releases. It left me rather confused, and I'm hoping to > find some answers (which I will then happily document in the wiki). You're askin

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:39:40AM +, Philipp Kern a écrit : > On 2010-02-24, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Anyways, the thing is - data should be gathered where it belongs > > to (and is processed anyways). changelogs and other similar data > > actually are something the archive needs to process,

Work-needing packages report for Feb 26, 2010

2010-02-25 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 557 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 133 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread Brian May
On 26 February 2010 09:53, John Goerzen wrote: > According to http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization : > > "Qemu and KVM - Mostly used on Desktops/Laptops" > > "VirtualBox - Mostly used on Desktops/Laptops" > > "Xen - Provides para-virtualization and full-virtualization. Mostly used > on serv

Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-25 Thread John Goerzen
Hi folks, There was a thread here a little while back about the status of Xen in future Debian releases. It left me rather confused, and I'm hoping to find some answers (which I will then happily document in the wiki). According to http://wiki.debian.org/SystemVirtualization : "Qemu and KVM - M

Bug#571531: ITP: polkit-kde-1 -- KDE dialogs for PolicyKit

2010-02-25 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra * Package name: polkit-kde-1 Version : 0.95.1 Upstream Author : Dario Freddi * URL : ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/apps/KDE4.x/admin/ * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : KDE dial

Bug#571471: ITP: pytest-xdist -- xdist plugin for py.test (a.k.a. codespeak-lib)

2010-02-25 Thread Adam Schmalhofer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Schmalhofer * Package name: pytest-xdist Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : holger krekel * URL : http://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest-xdist * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : xdist plugin for

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:39:45PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: > Hi, > > FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will > collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used > for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). > > Colle

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-24, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Anyways, the thing is - data should be gathered where it belongs > to (and is processed anyways). changelogs and other similar data > actually are something the archive needs to process, so storage is > easy. Things like UDD should not generate it, but merely