[ANNOUNCE] kexec-tools v2.0.27 preparation

[Sourabh Jain]

Hello Coiby,

On 14/08/23 08:49, Coiby Xu wrote:
> Hi Sourabh,
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 08:17:34AM +0530, Sourabh Jain wrote:
>> Hello Simon,
>>
>> Can we include below fix?
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kexec@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/O3W4SLVVFT6J25U5YSXNZ3URZ4QY6SRU/ 
>>
>
> I'll review your patch! Note the patch is against Fedora's kexec-tools
> so it doesn't apply to this upstream kexec-tools. The relationship
> between Fedora's kexec-tools and this upstream kexec-tools can be
> described as follows,
> 1. Fedora's kexec-tools packages the kexec binary which is provides by 
> upstream
> kexec-tools; 2. The kexec binary is used for loading the kdump kernel 
> and initrd but
> it's not responsible for building the kdump initrd. Fedora's kexec-tools
> is used to build the kdump initrd instead.
> Currrently it's WIP to split current Fedora kexec-tools into
> kexec-tools, kdump-utils, makedumpfile and eppic. Hopefully after it's
> done, you and other uses will no longer be confused by the relationship
> between Fedora's kexec-tools and this upstream kexec-tools.

My Thunderbird filters mail from kexec at lists.fedoraproject.org and 
kexec at lists.infradead.org
to the same folder so I got confused. I should update my Thunderbird filter.

Thanks for clarification.
Sourabh