Re: something for pci.lst
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:42:42PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> I'm not really sure if it's worth the effort. I think we wuld better put
> our limited time into fixing the already reported discover1 issues and
> providing discover2 packages (I will work on the latter tomorrow).
That's fine with me. Would you mind checking discover2 in to either svn
or cvs so I can work on it too?
> > 1) When we move to discover2 in sid, we'd have to move the
> > discover-data package to discover-data-2.4. I think I'll actually have
> > both current discover-data packages Provides: discover1-data instead,
> > and the new discover to depend on that. That should help plan for this
> > issue, minimizing its impact.
> OK.
All right, I'll prep a discover-data-2.6 package tonight if I get some
time (I'm in finals right now until the end of the week, so my Debian
time is a bit limited for now). Would you like me to check it in to cvs
or svn?
> > 3) I don't see any clean method to allow the 2.4 and 2.6 packages to
> > coexist. I suppose doing some more hacky garbage with symlinks and a
> > debconf question (the way the *dm packages now do) is an option that
> > I'd be willing to throw together.
> I think the easiest would be to make the to packages conflict and
> document this in README.Debian.
Yeah, although I feel like it hurts people who are just testing out 2.6.
If I can implement my version quickly and without too much pain then
I'll just use that. If not, then the conflicts is definitely the way to
go.
- David Nusinow
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