On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Selbak, Rolla N <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/10/11 9:27 PM, "Zhu, Peter J" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:23 PM >>> To: Zhu, Peter J >>> Cc: Selbak, Rolla N; [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [meego-commits] 11716: Changes to Trunk:Testing/powertop >>> >>> On 1/10/2011 7:06 PM, Zhu, Peter J wrote: >>>> Why fork two powertop? We never fork CORE packages. >>>> >>>> For powertop, I don't understand we need old top if you would like >> new >>> features of latest powertop >>> >>> Rolla suggested it for one release as a transition, just in case there >>> are bugs with the new code...... >> New version always might have bugs. Please just use new version or hold >> on until new version is good enough. > > I already talked to Arjan about this in length. > > Please accept this Peter. > > Forking is because the new powertop is a complete re-engineering of > powertop, and is in Beta stages, which for our purposes is good enough. > > Keeping the old powertop around is for QA since they might need it for > diagnostics, and I don't want to hinder their process (they're already > pressured enough).
It might be better to do it in a way how old compat packages are done e.g. in Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name So, in that way powertop package would be updated to 2.x-beta, and new package powertop1 as a temporary until we satisfied with 2.x > So please accept... > > Thanks much, > > rs > >> >> Peter > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-packaging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging > -- br, Alexander Kanevskiy _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
