Micro release exception for Xen

[Stefan Bader]

Hi,

I would like to apply for a micro release exception for Xen for supported releases:

- Those are managed by the Xen community and like stable kernels are
  and limited to bug fixes. Those get reviewed upstream before release.
- Like for the stable kernel releases this helps to get bugs fixed
  even before people may be reporting them to us.
- Security patches are based on the current stable release (currently
  4.1.x and 4.2.x) so applying security updates before the next stable
  version has less risk of missing dependencies.
- The backports I did prepare were simply replacing the orig tarballs and
  dropping security patches or bug fixes which since then were applied
  into upstream stable.
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1180396 (4.1.5)
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen/+bug/1180397 (4.2.2)
- Backports get locally test build and also manually regression tested
  on AMD and Intel Xen hosts.

Regards,
Stefan Bader





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