powertop2 vs powertop

[Eric Sandeen]

On 3/14/11 1:03 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:53:31PM +0100, jan.klepek wrote:
>  
>  > In not so recent past, powertop2 alpha has been released [1] and it is
>  > currently in version 1.97. It is usuable and I was thinking about
>  > packaging it for Fedora. However, there is already "old" powertop.
>  > So I will have to package it as powertop2 because it is completely
>  > different tool. 
>  > Does it have sense to package it as powertop2? Or should rather powertop
>  > package maintainer update powertop package with new sources (even when
>  > they are considered as alpha)?
> 
> Is powertop1 going to continue to be updated ?  I would assume not,
> and having both in the archive is just going to cause confusion.
> 
> What's wrong with waiting for the non-alpha version, and then updating
> the existing powertop package ?
> 
> 	Dave
> 

Er, isn't it already built for fedora?  I think the migration
is well in hand.  :)

http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/powertop/1.97/

-Eric