On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:29:12AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hi, > > SUSE uses now kexec-tools-testing releases since about one year and > we never had severe problems (compared to other software). It's well > maintained (thanks Simon!), gets frequent releases, patches are > accepted, so: > > - I would suggest that kexec-tools-testing could be renamed to > kexec-tools somewhere in the future since kexec-tools is not > maintained any more by Eric. It only causes confusion since > some distributions still use kexec-tools (the original ones) > with lots of patches. I agree. Perhaps we could make the next release kexec-tools 2.0.0, perhaps after a few beta releases? I can rename my git tree to coincide with this move. > I think current IA64 versions even do not work with kexec-tools > since there were some incompatible changes related to the > position of ELF core headers. Yes, I think you are right. > - I would suggest that kexec-tools gets normal release numbers. > The date releases are quite bad for package managers since it's > not possible to go back (in terms of a clean update path) > from something like 20080101 to 1.5 since 2008 is always greater. > > Currently SUSE ships still the old 1.101 version and the real > release is only visible in the changelog. Of course it's possible to > do something like 1.101+20080101, but it's nasty. That is fine by me. But we may as well rename the package to kexec-tools at the same time. > If I could help out doing some work to help to get that done, then just > tell me. You're already helping a lot. Perhaps the best thing to do now would be to hash out a release roadmap. Fortunately the code is pretty small, so it shouldn't be a very long road. Do you think there is anything currently missing from the tree? If not, I can make a beta release early next week (I have to leave my desk for an extended weekend shortly). -- Horms
