Proposal: reject the one-spec approach (was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Mail voting on kmdl adoption)

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:42:53AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> I think we fight to many battles at once. So let's start concentrate on 
> one of the easy ones first. As the uname -r debatte is likely to take 
> some time I choose the "one-spec approach" one.

> -- it's already in production (in FE and LVN)
> -- we have a lot of packages under review that use the split approach;

There is exactly one (1) package in Fedora and lives only in FE5.

> -- is time critical because we're already after test2

For this very one package ...

> - packagers and some reviewers are familiar with it already

I only count Ville and you.

> - it works in the buildsystem already -- the kmdl scheme would need 
> special handling that needs to be programmed

In a previous mail you admitted not being kernel agnostic yet because
otherwise your kmods won't build. And I offered adding kmdl support to
the buildsystem.

> So changing this will be lot's of trouble without a benefit. So let's 
> reject this part now.

No, please don't listen to the devil. :)

Thorsten, this is part of the voting, it will be voted upon, if you
allow people to do so. This guerilla tactics are becoming ugly.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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