powertop2 vs powertop

[Dave Jones]

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