[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Separating gudev from systemd

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 12:01 +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Pitt <
> > martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > Hey David,
> > > 
> > > David Herrmann [2015-05-19 17:06 +0200]:
> > > > We're about to remove gudev from the systemd repository, as it 
> > > > is in
> > > > no way related to the systemd code-base, nor used by the 
> > > > systemd
> > > > project.
> > > 
> > > This makes sense indeed. gudev used to be a standalone project 
> > > before
> > > it was merged into udev, so the circle is complete now :-)
> > > 
> > > For those of us who already packaged gudev from systemd 219, 
> > > would it
> > > be possible to bump the current release to 220, so that gudev can 
> > > be
> > > packaged without renaming the tarball and doing ugly version 
> > > numbers?
> > > Monotonously increasing version numbers and all.. (Yes, there are
> > > "epochs" in Debian, and I'm sure RPM has these too, but they 
> > > might not
> > > be available everywhere and are generally frowned upon)
> > 
> > While you are at it, why not bump it to 225 or something (just to
> > guarantee that the last systemd release with gudev has a lower 
> > version
> > number than gudev at that time, so people can switch over whenever
> > they want without having to worry about going backwards).
> 
> I intend to apply patches to systemd-git until we finally removed it
> there. Given that we had 0 patches so far this year, it'll probably
> stay that way. Hence, there's no hurry in replacing gudev from 
> systemd
> with libgudev. It'd be enough to just drop the systemd sub-package 
> and
> provide a new libgudev package, even if that might not forcefully
> update the package.
> 
> However, I see no reason not to bump it, so I'll gladly follow the
> packager's demands:
> 
> https://github.com/systemd
> -devs/libgudev/commit/f6203336e5b1ccf896acc506b54ec895fdae98b4
> 
> @Bastien: At your convenience, can you cherry-pick this and do 
> another
> release? Should have done this right away, sorry!

Could you file this in our new Bugzilla? Otherwise, I end up losing
track of it...