Bug#654818: Alevt

[Andreas Rottmann]

Tobias Grimm <tobias.grimm at e-tobi.net> writes:

> Hello Andreas!
>
> You probably have noticed #654818 already.
>
> Alevt doesn't seem to be upstream-maintained anymore and Uwe Bugla has
> published an updated fork within the dvb-apps suite of utilities.
>
Note that I have already (so far unsucessfully) requested adoption for
alevt (RFA #532093).

> This now leads to a conflict between the two packages. We could:
>
> a) Declare these packages conflicting
> b) You could co-maintain linuxtv-dvb-apps, drop the alevtv source package
>    and build it from the linuxtv-dvb-apps sources
> c) Drop alevtv all together and replace it by dvb-apps
>
> What do you think?
>
>From my POV, option (c) would be the most desirable.  Are the binaries
provided by dvb-apps a drop-in replacement for the ones coming from the
alevt package?  If so, simply dropping alevt after adding a "Provides:
alevt" to dvb-apps would be the best solution IMHO.

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>