Re: i2c and lm-sensors mess

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

OK, so this is my proposal.  :-)

1.  Fix the userland utilities in lm-sensors 2.8.3+ so that they work with the 
kernel modules from lm-sensors 2.7.0 *and/or* the ones in kernel 2.6.
I'm not sure whether any work actually needs to be done for this (it may work 
already) -- hopefully someone can find out.  (Unfortunately, I can't test 
this because I have no supported hardware sensors in my machine.)  If work 
does need to be done, it should be reasonably straightforward.  This way 
libsensors2 can deal with both 'varieties' of kernel modules.

2. Package the userland utilities, including libsensors2, from lm-sensors 
2.8.3+.  Then we have working kernel 2.6 support (and no depending packages 
need to be recompiled).

3. Package i2c 2.7.0 and the kernel modules from lm-sensors 2.7.0, with an 
epoch, and put those in unstable.  Then we have working kernel 2.2 and 2.4 
support.

This does require a source package split for lm-sensors, of course.