[OE-core] [RFC] About GPLv2's native recipe

akuster808 akuster808 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 17:04:28 UTC 2015



On 01/23/2015 04:47 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com> wrote:
>> We have several GPLv2 recipes such as m4-native_1.4.9.bb, while we also
>> have GPLv3's m4-native_1.4.17.bb, I think that we can remove
>> m4-native_1.4.9.bb if the target m4_1.4.9.bb builds well ?
>>
>> I'd like to remove it because we don't build the lower native version by
>> default, and we don't know whether it works or when it would fail.
>
> I second this; not tested recipes are always good to remove.
>

Speaking of not tested, what about 'BLACKLISTED' recipes? is there a 
policy regarding how long to keep them around when they are in that state?

- Armin



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