[oe] [PATCH 1/2] udev: fixed obsolete udevadm syntax for udev init.d script.

[Ihar Hrachyshka]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Tom Rini <trini at embeddedalley.com> wrote:
>> I disagree.  There are, I assume, things that could be done on top of
>> the -141 script as further enchancements/cleanups that would not apply
>> to -124.  But keeping older files in sync, so long as (a) it works and
>> (b) the older version is cared about makes future buging easier, I've
>> found.
>
> I also disagree but due different reasons. I believe we ought to drop
> the old version except if there're a real reason to keep it around.
> For udev 124 I think there's no reason for it to be kept (maybe I'm
> missing something here).

Some distros still prefer this version. I think that's the reason you missed.

>
> Obviously this ought to be done in dev, not stable, but it can make
> our life easier and avoid us to need to care about so many recipes.
> The final result is that old versions usually has ugly and unknown
> bugs that noone cares about.

If someone prefer the version then we should consider it as needed. Or
drop the obsolete distro (btw I think it's a good thing to drop
obsolete infrastructure things for which maintainers are too "busy" to
sync their third-party gits with upstream).

>
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