Hi Carlos The usage of vserver-debiantools seems to be dwindling, but there are still people who have it installed. That do not mean that it is actually used.
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=vserver-debiantools Also the tool does not have latest stable as default and I'm not even sure you can create a virtual server with it. No error reports on it though. Cheers, // Ola On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez < clo...@igalia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > From my point of view, the situation regarding vserver is the following: > > > 1) Regarding the vserver patch for the Linux kernel: > > - The latest LTS Kernel (3.18) is already supported [1]. > This is usually what you want to use in production (LTS). > > - There is already a beta patch for Linux 4.1 [2]. And there will be > patches for 4.2 and newer kernels ASAP. > > - So my conclusion is that development of the patchset keeps going. A > bit slow, but steady. > > 2) Regarding the util-vserver package, I'm going to update it to the > last version from upstream in the next days. And I'm plan to keep > maintaining it for the foreseeable future. > > > 3) Regarding the vserver-debiantools package: I don't use it, but maybe > there are still some users of it? So... my suggestion is to keep it > within Debian (of course if there aren't any serious bug with it). > I think the users of this utility will appreciate that you keep the > package on Debian meanwhile it works. > > > So, I don't see any compelling reason to request the removal of > util-vserver. > > > Regards > ------- > > [1] http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-3.18.7-vs2.3.7.4.diff > [2] > > http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/patch-4.1.3-vs2.3.8.2_donotuse.diff > > > On 27/08/15 22:28, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Hi Holger > > > > I tend to agree. I thought I had already asked for the removal of > > vserver-debiantools, but obviously not. > > > > Carlos, what do you say? > > > > Cheers, > > > > // Ola > > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Holger Levsen > > <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > > > >> package: util-vserver, vserver-debiantools severity: important > >> x-debbugs-cc: debian...@lists.debian.org > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> both util-vserver as well as vserver-debiantools are unusuable with > >> current kernels as upstream only supports up to linux 3.18.7, so I > >> wonder if actually util-vserver and vserver-debiantools should be > >> removed from sid? > >> > >> Only filing this as "important" as one can easily use these old > >> kernels... > >> > >> > >> cheers, Holger > >> > > > > > > > > > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / o...@inguza.com Annebergsslingan 37 \ | o...@debian.org 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
