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

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 23 January 2015 09:04:28 akuster808 wrote:
> 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?

We don't blacklist recipes in OE-Core, so you'd have to address that question 
to Martin or other layer maintainers who do do that.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre