linux-kernel - Re: util-linux: orphan

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Message-Id: <200612181105.13893.arekm@maven.pl>
Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:05:13 +0100
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@...e.de>, Olaf Hering <olh@...e.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: util-linux: orphan

On Monday 18 December 2006 10:33, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project.
> > This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7).
> >
> > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state,
> > sync with actual distributions and kernel and make development more
> > transparent end open.
>
> If Adrian [ http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/9/262 ] does not want to be
> the maintainer, ask if you can take over, including the name.
> This smells a lot like the RPM case [ http://lwn.net/Articles/196523/ ]
> however, it does not look like anyone is going to call it rpm-ng just
> because the original name is owned by the last maintainer.

rpm.org case is even worse. Original maintainer still develops rpm - at this 
moment version 4.4.7 at http://wraptastic.org/ (while rpm.org starts from 
older 4.4.2 codebase), there is active mailing list, so we have two running 
projects with the same name which is bad thing and will cause confusion.

I hope that there will be one util-linux and one rpm project.

> Regards,
> 	-`J'

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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