[Openembedded-architecture] [RFC] additions to new package submission and updates.

[akuster808]

On 02/26/2018 02:35 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Well, maintainers.inc is oe-core specific until we have a way to tell
> bitbake "include every conf/include/maintainers.inc you can find", but
> if that existed then it's definitely an option for layers.

Nothing  wrong in having maintainers listed somewhere. The more
important part IMHO,  is the UPSTREAM_CHECK_*  part.
>
> For core, we should be requiring it yes.  UPSTREAM_CHECK_* don't
> *need* to be present as there are defaults,

defaults?

> what we should start checking regularly is that checkpkg works (and
> the selftest does spot most of the failures).

The side benefit is we start getting these changes into other layers so
checkpkg can be utilized by other maintainers.

- armin
>
> Ross
>
>
> On 25 February 2018 at 22:39, akuster808 <akuster808 at gmail.com
> <mailto:akuster808 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think its time we entertain updating new applications and package
>     updates submissions process.
>
>     If a new package is being added or updated,  we should expect
>     "UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX" to be present. Maybe even include an entry
>     to the
>     mainainers.inc file?
>
>     This could apply to all layers.
>
>
>     What do you thing?
>
>     Mahalo,
>
>     armin
>
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