[OE-core] [PATCH 00/33] Accumulated patches for deb packaging

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 12/07/2016 05:30 PM, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
>>> These are most of my patches which accumulated since our distro
>>> switched from opkg to dpkg and apt two years ago. They were tested
>>> thoroughly on dora and krogoth and just a little bit on master.
>>
>> How about updating apt and dpkg to latest upstream releases at the same
>> time?
>
> I don't see an advantage over updating at a later point in time.

The advantage is that oe-core does not accumulate technical debt that way.

Specifically, it's better to do many incremental version updates than 
few massive updates (or avoid updates altogether until the ongoing 
maintenance becomes unbearable, in the worst case). There is less 
changes in upstream code to deal with, less dependency fixing, and less 
resistance from community. This is actually the preferred mode of 
operation in oe-core. We are constantly fighting back against the 
increase in debt, and you could really help us here a bit.


Regards,
Alex