On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Michael Biebl <mbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/3/17 Dan Nicholson <dbn.li...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >>> Michael Biebl [2010-03-17 17:23 +0100]: > >>>> I would actually prefer, if we just shipped the quirks within the >>>> pm-utils tarball. >>>> Looking at the git branch, it looks like Victor wants to keep them in >>>> a separate tarball, even if they are in the same git repo. >>> >>> Victor, did that happen more or less by accident, or was it a >>> conscious decision? I could envision a separate git tree for being >>> able to give more people commit privileges to the quirks git, while >>> keeping the privileges for pm-utils itself relatively tight? >> >> I think the point for hal vs. hal-info was that hal-info releases >> could be independent of hal releases. pm-utils vs. >> pm-utils-video-quirks is a much narrower scope issue. You could >> probably get away with spinning a new point release of pm-utils after >> a few quirks had rolled in with minimal code changes. >> > > We have to keep in mind, that the quirk submission rate will most > likely be *very* low. > Compared to two or three years ago in hal, where we not only had > suspend quirks but also keymaps, recall data etc. > > I won't argue too hard over this particular issue, if Victor wants to > keep pm-utils-video-quirks separate. > But imho it's only additional work with very little gain in return.
It is very little work, for that matter. :) > > Cheers, > Michael > > PS: For Debian/Ubuntu, we decided to stick the video-quirks directly > into the pm-utils package, so we don't have to maintain a separate > binary package. Doing that is very easy, especially since dpkg knows how to talk to git. Have you ever taken a look at the debian branch in the pm-utils git repo? > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > _______________________________________________ > Pm-utils mailing list > Pm-utils@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils > _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list Pm-utils@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
