[OE-core] [RFC] Replace procps with procps-ng

[Koen Kooi]

> Op 10 nov. 2014, om 11:38 heeft Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've tried upstreaming a patch against procps by sending it to the
> listed maintainer and the mailing list and I've had no reply from
> either. The last change to the CVS repository seems to be 3 years old
> and the mailing list archive is mostly just full of spam.
> 
> It looks like Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE have moved on to
> procps-ng. I suggest we do the same during the v1.8 development cycle
> if possible. procps-ng is actively developed and looks to be open to
> patches.
> 
> I'm sadly pretty limited on development time at the minute but I may
> be able to give this a go in December. I'd rather focus the time I do
> have on opkg though so if anyone else wants to pick this up that'd be
> great.

With the util-linux -> util-linux-ng -> util-linux change in mind I strongly encourage to keep using 'procps' are package name or ensure that the appropriate (R)PROVIDES are in place.

regards,

Koen