[OE-core] Request to move "gitpkgv.bbclass" from meta-oe to oe-core

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:16 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>> In partial reply to my own question, this has been discussed 2 years ago, but
>> apparently nothing ever came out of it.
>>
>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/056050.html
>>
>> So once more the request to be able to get sane version strings for git repos.
>> Can we please just move gitpkgv. That's like five minutes work, and if anyone
>> (e.g. me) feels like building something better, he or she is free do submit
>> that and get rid of the gitpkgv class once it's obsolete.
>
> I do feel quite strongly that this is something which should get
> improved in the fetcher itself. That is why I've pushed back on the
> patch since if I take it into OE-Core, there is even less incentive to
> fix the real problem...

Mike I am also an user of gitpkgv but I must to agree with Richard
here. Moving this to OE-Core will just make it worse. It is way better
to prepare a patch and add support for it on the fetcher code of
BitBake.

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