Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#695056: xen - Missing support for XZ compressed bzimage kernels

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:12:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 09:51 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 04.12.12 at 10:33, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:47 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > >> Package: src:xen
> > >> Version: 4.1.3-4
> > >> Severity: serious
> > >> 
> > >> The bzimage loader used in both libxc and the hypervisor lacks XZ
> > >> support. Debian kernels since 3.6 are compressed with XZ and can't be
> > >> loaded.
> > >> 
> > >> Support for XZ compression was added in changeset 23002:eb64b8f8eebb
> > >> somewhere last year.
> > > 
> > > Indeed. Jan this would be a good candidate for a future 4.1.x I think
> > > (it was already in 4.2.0).
> > 
> > Hmm, I'm not really convinced - we're at 4.1.4 (I'm looking
> > towards an RC2 followed by a release within the next days),
> > and doing a feature addition like this in a .5 stable release
> > looks questionable to me in the context of how we managed
> > stable updates in the past. But I'm open to be outvoted of
> > course...
> 
> My thinking was that it is a reasonably self contained patch (most of
> the code is the new files) and without it people won't be able to use
> 4.1.x with their distro kernels at all, so it's something between a bug
> fix and a new feature.
> 
> If distros are going to be backporting it anyway they may as well all
> get it from us.
> 

+1