[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Time for a new release

[Matt Taggart]

Matthew Wilcox writes...

> I'd like to inflict 2.2.4-pre4 on the world; it's all merged up and
> ready to go.

I just uploaded pciutils 2.2.4~pre4-1 (and tagged in cvs)
I also uploaded libpci2 2.1.11-3

> We've talked about splitting out pci.ids into its own package,

Should this wait until after etch? The only reason I can think of for doing 
this before etch is that it might make updating in stable releases easier, but 
doing a new pciutils with only pci.ids updated doesn't seem any harder.

> and I've mused on merging pciutils-dev into pciutils.

I like them split. It doesn't seem like much space, but it is on millions of 
systems. I mostly like it because it's more consistent with other debian 
packages.

> But I don't think
> this is the last upload before etch, so there's still time for someone to
> make those changes after this release.

We are quickly approaching our last opportunity though.

Martin,
It might be nice if we could get the debian diffs minimized and if you did a 
final update to pci.ids and then released 2.2.4, as this will probably be the 
version to go in etch and live for a while.

Here is a link to the Debian diff for the version I just uploaded,

 http://incoming.debian.org/pciutils_2.2.4~pre4-1.diff.gz

Other than the debian/ stuff (which shouldn't go upstream), the pcimodules  
stuff (which willy is trying to get rid of), and the pci.ids diff there's not 
much left. Can any of that go upstream?

Thanks,

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Matt Taggart
taggart at debian.org