Some people may have noticed that a thread has recently started about Xen on debian-devel.

To sum up the whole story, here it is.

Guido Trotter and myself asked Adam Heath, the current official maintainer of Xen, if it was possible to help him (bug #342249) to package Xen 3.
He did not answer to our messages, as he seems to be MIA, so we started with Jeremy Bouse, Ralph Passgang and Yvette Chanco to work and we created a project on Alioth in order to package the latest release. We started our development from the package Ralph made previously.

We don't know really why, but Bastian Blank, from the Debian kernel team, uploaded his own package of Xen 3, ignoring our request to work on our side, arguing that this was the work of kernel team to maintain Xen. It seems that actually, the kernel team only pretend to maintain the Dom0 and DomU kernel images, probably as soon as Xen in included in the vanilla kernel, and that Bastian took the decision alone to maintain the hypervizor and userspace tools.

Today, we have functionnal and splitted packages of Xen 3, available on the Subversion repository.

I made Xen packages with the latest development version of our packages and the Xen testing version. They are available from:

deb http://naquadah.org/~jd/debian/xen stable main

Official backports will be uploaded to backports.org as soon as we will have uploaded a version to sid. But for now, we have to cancel or bypass the upload Bastian made...