procps-ng is a mistake (was: Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-05-14))
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon May 14 20:21:15 UTC 2012
Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said:
> > * #851 F18 Feature: procps-ng (next generation procps tools) -
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/procps-ng (sgallagh,
> > 18:11:34)
> > * AGREED: Feature procps-ng is accepted (9 +1) (sgallagh, 18:14:47)
>
> Ahem. I think is is a really bad idea. "-ng" packages point to a huge
> failure in the handling of the packages in question, and should not be
> deemed a feature for Linux but a failure of Linux
<putting FESCo hat on>
I read this as simply a feature saying we're switching from procps upstream
X to procps upstream Y. To be honest, I'm not sure it's even worthy of a
Feature.
The -ng naming is unfortunate, but so are many other things. In fact, we're
shipping a version from this upstream already, just not the new
all-distro-patches-merged version.
So, it's essentially a no-op.
Bill
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