[Pkg-xen-devel] About hotplug/udev

[Guido Trotter]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:31:21PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:

Hi,

> Yes, it was on sarge.
> But this dependency is satisfied on sarge with hotplug version
> included. So it seems not ok.
> 

Probably not... We could just depend on

udev (>= first version which conflicts with hotplug and provides it) | hotplug

and we should be fine!

> This is what I done, but I had to discover it by myself, because the
> dependency was satisfied by hotplug.
> Is hotplug too old on Sarge ?
> 

No I think it's ok... I'm currently using xen on sarge with hotplug and it seems
to be working fine...

> Could be fine, but in fact we have to follow unstable, not really sarge ;)
> 

Yeah, but since we don't know if etch will really be released as soon as our
release managers say or it will take a dozen years more, it's better if we
support sarge too! ;)

> Really really really clever.
> Having a build-dep on hotplug or udev is ugly I think. (I did not see this).
> Furthermore, hotplus is now provided by udev, IIRC.
> 

Yeah, good choice! Now there's just the dependency to be sorted out! If mine
could work I think we can declare this solved!

Guido