Re: [oe-commits] Philip Balister : i2c-tools : Stage i2c-dev.h header as i2c-dev-user.h.

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 12/14/2010 07:06 AM, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> Am 10.12.2010 um 15:36 schrieb git version control:
>
>> Module: openembedded.git
>> Branch: org.openembedded.dev
>> Commit: 48e6a063370a38a35f31a28efd8f6ce6ebf00840
>> URL:    http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git&a=commit;h=48e6a063370a38a35f31a28efd8f6ce6ebf00840
>>
>> Author: Philip Balister<philip@balister.org>
>> Date:   Fri Dec 10 09:31:01 2010 -0500
>>
>> i2c-tools : Stage i2c-dev.h header as i2c-dev-user.h.
>>
>> Thanks to John Faith for suggesting this approach on the ML. The problem is
>> i2c-tools overwrites the header staged by the kernel. This breaks programs
>> that depend on the kernel header.
>
> I don't think this a good solution. Now all programs break which expect
> this very i2c-dev.h as being staged by i2c-tools. Interestingly, the
> desktop distros don't bother about staging it differently, so why
> can't we do the same? Besides, the i2c-dev.h as staged by i2c-tools
> is supposed to be a superset. If it isn't we should complain with the
> i2c-tools developers.
>
> What can we do in the meantime?

Can we get a survey of how other distros handle the situation?

My Fedora 14 box does not install the header from i2c-tools and there 
does not appear to be a dev package.

I do not think packages shoudl overwrite headers that come from the kernel.

Philip