Hello,
Mario Holbe schrieb am Thursday, den 31. March 2005: > since a few days dumputils is in unstable and now even in testing, too. > I was quite confused because dumputils conflicts lkcdutils, but finally > I belive to have found out you are trying to replace lkcdutils with > dumputils. Perhaps you could point this out more clearly somewhere. Yes, you are right -- we are in the process of transitioning lkcdutils into its subcomponants. We welcome suggestions of where we could point this out better so people will see it. > Anyways, I finally screw up my courage, purged lkcdutils and installed > dumputils. > First of all: dumputils works with 2.4.27 which lkcdutils never did - > very well :) One of the many benefits of dumputils! :) > However, there are some misleading points currently: > * kernel-patch-lkcd recommends lkcdutils > Since dumputils conflicts lkcdutils but does not provide it, this > recommendation cannot be fulfilled at all currently, if one decides > to install dumputils. A new version of kernel-patch-lkcd has been uploaded that Recommends: dumputils | lkcdutils, once we finish the transition, lkcdutils will be removed from the Recommends line completely. > * lkcdutils provides lots more than just the lkcd binary. > While dumputils does only provide configdump and savedump, which are > replacements for the lkcd binary, if I understand this right, lkcdutils > does also provide lcrash which I would really like to have even with > dumputils installed and it further provides lots of useful > documentation, i.e. the lkcd tutorial and some READMEs. Again, you are right.... however you are right only because we are in the middle of this transition. We separated out lcrash and it is in the NEW queue waiting to be accepted into the archive. Additionally, crash is a separate package. The tutorial and READMEs that are distributed with lkcdutils are horribly out of date and very wrong in many ways. New documentation needs to be written, and when it is we will package that. > Would it be possible to split up lkcdutils to some more packages like > lkcdutils, lkcd-doc, lcrash, lcrash-doc? This way you could keep the > `dumputils conflicts lkcdutils' while the extra stuff could be used, > no matter which of dumputils and lkcdutils is installed. Yup, thats what we are doing :) Micah
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