powertop2 vs powertop

[jan.klepek]

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:13 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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

Good to know, I somehow missed this in powertop fedora git :(
Thanks for info Eric.

Regards,
Jan