Re: [libimobiledevice-devel] ipheth

[Paul McEnery <pmcenery@gmail.com>]

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.

Regards,
Paul.