On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:32:01PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi release assistants and release managers,
> The lm-sensors project has released a new upstream version of lm-sensors > with a reworked API. The main benefit (among others) of this new API is > that sensor chip support only have to be added to the kernel, and not > anymore to both kernel and userland. > The problem is that the new API is not compatible with the old one, and > that the port to the new API needs some work, though that should not be > that difficult. > Given the range of packages involved, ranging from KDE to net-snmp and > including various X frontends, I have choosen to have the two versions of > the library concurrently in unstable. A new source package called > lm-sensors-3 is currently waiting in NEW with libsensors4 and > libsensors4-dev as binary packages. > My plan is to let those new libraries enter testing and then submit > patches to the various packages that uses the old API. Upstream has > released patches for half of the packages we have in Debian and that > uses libsensors. > Any comments? Sounds reasonable to me, and an appropriate use of versioned -dev packages. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
