hal-info: making hardware updates easier

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 22:55 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

> The idea for versioning is for hal-info to use the date (e.g. 20061024)
> for it's version, and for hal to not depend on any particular version of
> hal-info. The idea being, hal is released every few months, but a new
> release of hal-info every couple of weeks would be no bad thing.

I don't know how hal and hal-info will exchange data, but you might want
to version that interface too unless it's dead-simple, and provide
(optional) backward compatibility in hal-info if it ever changes.

I can imagine, for example, debian stable freezing hal and putting
hal-info into volatile where it'll be updated over years to come while
hal stays the same. Similar with Ubuntu who are promising 18 months now.

johannes