On 24 April 2010 08:00, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Paul McEnery <pmcen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/4/22 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>: >>> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 21:09 +0100, Paul McEnery wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> > 1. Keep the ipheth-utils package and drop ipheth-dkms when ipheth >>>> > makes it into the mainline kernel. Given that mainline inclusion could >>>> > take a while, users (of Debian at least) could start to benefit almost >>>> > immediately since all of the packaging work has already been done. >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> The Debian kernel team's policy on backporting drivers is that drivers >>>> must have been *accepted* upstream, not that they must have been part of >>>> an upstream release. ipheth is a pretty small driver and doesn't appear >>>> to have any major problems, so I would expect it to be accepted on the >>>> second submission, within the next week or so. At that point we can >>>> immediately add it to our kernel packages. >>> >>> Since ipheth has now been accepted by David Miller, I've just added it >>> to the repository for Debian kernel packages. >>> >> >> Thanks Ben. >> >> I'll update the ipheth package in the next couple of days. I'll pick >> up the discussion about dropping ipheth-dkms on the debian-kernel >> list... > > Was was the final decision of merging the small util into one of the > other packages and the udev rules into usbmuxd? >
This was discussed a few weeks ago, but I don't recall anyone being in overwhelming support of the idea. I'm not sure that usbmuxd should have *libimobiledevice-utils* as a dependency for something may not be used by everyone. If there is some value in this, then I think its worth reopening the discussion. At this point I'm working on dropping the ipheth-dkms package and keeping only ipheth-utils which provides the udev rules and pariing utility. If the former approach is preferred, then we can look at getting the respective maintainers involved... Regards, Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/g2mb4892f8e1004240118r49443f08odced4d7f0dcb5...@mail.gmail.com
