[Libosinfo] [PATCH] Ditch udev rule

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:22:23PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>
>> New udev/blkid expose more ISO9660 properties
>
> I think by 'new' here, you mean unreleased versions of these. Given that
> libosinfo releases end up as stable updates in released distros (this is
> the case in fedora at least), I think it's premature to remove the rule
> altogether. It seems to already be disabled be default unless --with-udev
> is used. Maybe we can add a warning that this is deprecated when using
> util-linux vXX and systemd vYY and keep the rule for now? We could also
> potentially add another switch --with-deprecated-udev rule switch to make
> sure distros notice this is going away. Another way would be a udev version
> check, and error out with new udev and --with-udev.
>
> All in all, I think just removing it is very premature, especially as there
> are users of this rule (boxes). I'm all for documented it's deprecated one
> way or another.

As I said in the other mail, I share your concern but not as deeply.
Once systemd/util-linux are released, we can merge this. There will be
a week or two in between systemd release and libosinfo release.
Knowing that some distros missed the 'enable-udev' option (at least in
the beginning), I don't think renaming the option would grab attention
from disto packagers.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124