linux-kernel - Re: usbutils 0.81 release

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Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:02:32 +0200
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 23:54, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> 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 There is in most cases no point in keeping outdated spec files or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
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