Re: A new version of gnome-applet-sensors

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 18:20 +0200, Hans de Goede a écrit :
> > Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > - the lm_sensors upstream maintainer has expressed distress at
> > > gnome-applet-sensors several times, breakage when kernel/lm_sensors is
> > > updated is to be expected
> > I am active in the upstream lm_sensors project, can you explain? Maybe this can 
> > be fixed the same way I fixed gkrellm (use libsensors instead of DIY)
>
> In the few cases I remember gnome-applet-sensors made bad assumptions,
> so rebuilding it against a newer lm_sensors wasn't sufficient to pick up
> new stuff, it also needed internal changes (for example, every sensor is
> on a bus when the k8/core2 sensors are on a processor, etc)

Oh, but libsensors itself is full of assumptions like that so upstream really 
shouldn't be complaining about gnome-applet-sensors making assumptions like that :)

Either way I volunteer myself as co-maintainer for gnome-applet-sensors, 
because of my involvednes in lmsensors upstream.

Regards,

Hans