Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760536AbZD0WDG (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:03:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759063AbZD0WCu (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:02:50 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:33515 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760575AbZD0WCt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:02:49 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Kay Sievers Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:02:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg KH , USB list , Kernel development list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 23 On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 23:54, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Kay Sievers wrote: >> There is in most cases no point in keeping outdated spec files or >> debian directories in upstream source packages. The best when updating >> a package, is to start with the one that is in the source rpm of the >> distro one uses. > > But what if the distro doesn't ship that package at all?  Then it's > good to at least have a starting point that you can adapt to your own > needs.  (Although I don't know of any major distributions that doesn't > include usbutils...) Maybe add a link to a distro spec file in the README? So this gets updated automatically by the people who do the packaging? Like this: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/devel/usbutils/usbutils.spec?revision=HEAD Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/