[OE-core] FW: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted that not GPLv3

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Alexander Kanavin
<alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 04:38 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>
>>     How about renaming the recipe, so that it doesn't clash with the
>>     GPLv3 version? For example, parted1_1.8.6.bb
>>     <http://parted1_1.8.6.bb>. Then it can be kept outside of oe-core.
>>
>>
>> As they're just version variations that would be overly complex.
>> Dropping it in oe-core as it's a non-v3 alternative doesn't seem to be a
>> problem to me (as there's plenty of precedent for that already).
>
>
> My problem is that parted 1.8.6 was released in 2007, and the recipe already
> carries eight patches with it (and none of them has any information about
> their origin).
>
> Who's going to provide ongoing maintenance for all that? I would like Lei to
> establish himself as the maintainer (through the maintainers.inc file).

Agreed; 2007 I was still one of developers of it IIRC and since then,
Jim has improved it quite a lot.

To be honest, parted at that time has several issues with bigger disk
sectors and other stuff.  I wouldn't like to see projects relying on
such old and buggy version.

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