Maintainance of hwdata

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:52:59AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:24 +0100, Karsten Hopp wrote:
 > > Till Maas schrieb:
 > > > Hiyas,
 > > > 
 > > > new bugs about hwdata are assigned to Karsten Hopp in bugzilla, but according 
 > > > to the changelog of hwdata he never made any change to it, ever. So is this 
 > > > normal for fedora core packages? Or is there maybe some false information 
 > > > about the maintainer of hwdata in Bugzilla because the open bugs seem to get 
 > > > not much attention.
 > > > 
 > > > Regards,
 > > > Till
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > No, the bugzilla information is correct. I just recently got this package from
 > > Phil, that's why you won't find any changelogs from me yet.
 > 
 > one thing that would be nice is if the cpu microcode data would actually
 > move from microcode_ctl to hwdata; the program almost never gets updated
 > but the microcode file gets updated every few months

hwdata is noarch though. Including x86 microcode data on all arches would be
a bit crap.

		Dave