powertop2 vs powertop

jan.klepek jan.klepek at brandforge.sk
Mon Mar 14 17:53:31 UTC 2011


Hi,

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)?
As both tools have same binary name, localization file and manpage,
should be source code updated and all occurence of word "powertop"
replaced with word "powertop2"? Or how this situation should be handled?

[1] http://blog.fenrus.org/?p=80

Regards,
Jan Klepek




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