Re: [libimobiledevice-devel] ipheth
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Paul McEnery <pmcenery@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 April 2010 17:39, Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org> wrote:
>> Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Why can't ipheth just depend on libimobiledevice-utils ? It *is* a
>>> functional dependency after all, even if they're not communicating
>>> directly with each other.
>>
>> The ipheth-dkms package will disappear because ipheth has been accepted
>> upstream and the kernel team added it to our 2.6.32 packages.
>>
>> So there's only ipheth-utils left, containing the udev rules and the
>> pairing utility. If a pairing utility is also distributed as part of
>> libimobiledevice, we're left with just the udev rules, and at that point
>> it's just sane to ask ourselves where the udev rules belong.
>>
>> I think it's going to end up in libimobiledevice-utils at that point,
>> unless there's a compelling reason not to do that. A package for a
>> single very small file is a big no-no.
>>
>
>
> Is anyone prepared to commit to including a pairing utility and the
> udev rule as part of libimobiledevice?
>
> If so, I guess we have a solution. The respective distro packagers can
> do the rest.
What's the final resolution to this? With ipeth now in a stable kernel
release it would be nice to have a user space tools release to support
it.
Regards,
Peter
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