[OE-core] Stable branch rules [Was: Re: [PATCH][jethro] glibc-locale: fix QA warning]

[Philip Balister]

On 02/08/2016 10:22 AM, Joshua G Lock wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 22:43 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 11:55 -0800, Armin Kuster wrote:
>>> From: Armin Kuster <akuster at mvista.com>
>>>
>>> WARNING: QA Issue: glibc-locale: /glibc-binary-localedata-sd
>>> -in/usr/lib/locale/sd_IN/LC_CTYPE is owned by uid 1000, which is
>>> the
>>> same as the user running bitbake. This may be due to host
>>> contamination [host-user-contaminated]
>>>
>>> fix type
>>> Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster at mvista.com>
>>> ---
>>>  meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-locale.inc | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Enough is enough.
>>
>> I cannot tell whether these patches are in master or not or whether
>> master needs them or not. Master needs this one, its not in master,
>> its
>> only being proposed for jethro. Its a mess.
>>
>> I am therefore not taking any more stable branch patches at all until
>> we amend the stable branch rules to state that pull requests and
>> patches clearly state which branches need a fix, or clearly state why
>> they don't.
> 
> I made an attempt at starting to documenting that requirement:
> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Stable_branch_mainte
> nance&diff=17480&oldid=17028
> 
> 'Patches' welcome.

Does this belong on the Yocto Project or OpenEmbedded wikis? Hunting
both is getting annoying.

Philip

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joshua
>