On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 23:54, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 There is in most cases no point in keeping outdated spec files or 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-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
