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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/NEWS | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 |
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ NEWS for vmdebootstrap Version 1.8+git, not yet released --------------------------------- +* Warn Debian users vmdebootstrap won't be in buster. Version 1.8, released 2017-09-17 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index c727770..4605f2d 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ +vmdebootstrap (1.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium + + vmdebootstrap is not going to be included in the release of Debian + buster. Please switch to another tool for building Debian system + images automatically, such as vmdb2, debos, or FAI. You have until + September, 2018. + + The reason for this is that vmdebootstrap has a software architecture + that makes it difficult to modify or test. Many desirable changes to + vmdebootstrap are so hard to make that its author doesn't even want to + contemplate them. Worse, fixing some of the known bugs are difficult. + + Because of this, the vmdebootstrap upstream author and Debian package + maintainer will get vmdebootstrap removed from Debian before the + buster release. Bugs in vmdebootstrap are unlikely to be fixed, unless + they have no workaround and threaten user data or are a security + problem. + + vmdb2 is the second attempt by the vmdebootstrap author to write a + tool for building Debian system images. It is much more flexible than + the first attempt, and much easier to modify. Unfortunately, the same + things that make vmdebootstrap hard to maintain make it hard to add + backwards compatibility to vmdb2 for command line and configuration + file syntax. vmdb2 is not a drop-in replacement. You'll have to re-do + all the image creation work with vmdb2. + + There are many other tools for the same purpose. You may want to + compare several and pick the one you like best. + + -- Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:48:56 +0200 + vmdebootstrap (1.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium * extlinux support is now deprecated. Grub to become default. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index a19d0c4..a5a7c48 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ vmdebootstrap (1.8+git-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium - * New upstream version. + * Add NEWS.Debian to warn about vmdebootstrap going away. -- Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> Sun, 17 Sep 2017 17:02:16 +0300 |