[Nut-upsdev] RPM .spec files in NUT source tree

[Arnaud Quette]

Hi To

2008/12/15 Tomáš Smetana <tsmetana at redhat.com>:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:36:22 -0500
> "Charles Lepple" <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My question to the packagers: Would you prefer that we include a
>> README file with a link to your website where you keep information
>> about your NUT packages? Or is it worthwhile for us to pull in your
>> changes every so often, so that people who want to test new drivers
>> can do so before you release a new version of NUT?
>
> This is my "me too" mail:  I join those who don't think having the
> distribution specific spec files in upstream sources is any benefit to the
> users or packagers -- just for Fedora there are F-9, F-10, Rawhide, EPEL-4 and
> EPEL-5 versions and each of them might (and do) differ from the upstream ones
> and from each other too...
>
> One more note: I just handled the NUT maintainership to my collague Michal
> Hlavinka (cc:-ed) so I abuse this thread to announce the change and kindly
> ask you to direct any Fedora packaging issues at him.

does that mean that you retire?

I'll guess that the following info hasn't reached Michal:

> *****************************IMPORTANT NOTE**********************************************
> please however provide some content on how to install nut using your
> package specific repositories, commands and UIs. These will be
> integrated into the User Manual. At the very least, provide some
> pointer to your documentation, explaining how to install NUT.
>  *******************************************************************************************

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