Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed

[Sean McMahon]

I'd like to pointout that if you are relying on the naming and building
convention posted at http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/build.htmll , Fedora uses
something different. based on the name of the speakup kernel rpm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes at calgary.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 9:07 AM
Subject: RE: Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed


Yes you have answered that portion of the question, but you refuse to answer the
question about where in the rpm naming convention does it tell me where the
level of patching is indicated. You have said that the kernel is a 2.6.11 kernel
that has a number of patches that makes it appear to be a 2.6.12 kernel. So do
you or don't you know where it tells this information in the rpm naming
convention and where exactly it is located in the
kernel-2.6.11-1.136_FC4.i686.rpm name.

There is an old cliché that goes something like, "if it walks like a duck, looks
like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck." Well, as I said a long
while back, if it looks like kernel-2.6.12, and it acts like kernel 2.6.12, then
don't call it something that it isn't as fedora has done.

Janina, I have noticed something about the way in which you answer questions
over the years. That is that you don't answer the entire question, but that you
only answer the portion of the question that you feel like. This approach only
provides partial information, and often is not what the requestor is looking
for. You wrote that you maintain the fedora speakup modified howto, and for the
work you do on this document it is good. However, your howto is only an
installation document, and when people want to go beyond the information
provided you start to get defensive and call their quest for information things
like idle speculation. Janina, what is idle information is partial answers like
the ones that you are in the habit of providing to peoples questions.


Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes at calgary.ca



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