[CentOS-devel] Missing Package spice-usb-redirector / CEEA-2010:0460

Johnny Hughes

johnny at centos.org
Fri May 6 14:39:02 UTC 2011


On 05/06/2011 09:03 AM, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>> On 05/06/2011 04:31 AM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
>>> Am 06.05.2011 00:55, schrieb Karanbir Singh:
>>>> On 05/05/2011 08:27 PM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
>>>>> I just noticed that the following packages which were announced as
>>>>> CEEA-2010:0460 [1],[2] but never made it onto the mirrors:
>>>>> spice-usb-redirector-4.5-2.el5_5.i386.rpm
>>>>> spice-usb-redirector-4.5-2.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
>>>>>
>>>> iirc, they were released by mistake and were removed immediately.
>>>
>>> I see. However, kmod-spice-usb-redirector is in the 5.5 updates repository.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas
>>
>> This was removed from EL 5.5 by upstream (as far as I can see), as well
>> as renamed:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598919
>>
>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0122.html
> 
> The kspiceusb-kmod package remains upstream. The above bug only
> pointed out a case where an error occurred *during removal* of the rpm
> package.
> 
> The kspiceusb-kmod package remains in CentOS because it is GPLv2,
> whereas spice-usb-redirector (now spice-usb-share) was removed because
> it's Proprietary.

Right ... I meant that kmod-spice-usb-redirector was removed from the
distro (which is what we mistakenly released).

We could release both kspiceusb-kmod and spice-usb-redirector (they are
both open source) ... but we normally do not release things on the
Supplementary ISOs (GPL or not).  That first release was a mistake.

Since 5.5 is going into the vault, we can do one of two things here ...
not release the 2 supplementary files (our normal practice), or release
them if there are people currently using our kmod-spice-usb-redirector.

I am open to either solution ... but if someone does not convince me
they need those 2 packages, I vote for let it die since it should not
have been released.  I can be persuaded, however, if people need it.

Thanks,
Johnny

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