[OE-core] proposal: remove DirectFB from oe-core in the next release cycle

[Khem Raj]

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:10 AM, alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com wrote:
> 
>>> I guess the thing missing is an indication that the repo on github is
>>> official and maintained.  Specifically the deniskropp repo has been
>>> recently touched but you have to admit
>>> that https://github.com/DirectFB/directfb looks more official.
>> 
>> Denis Oliver Kropp is the main developer of DirectFB and the description
>> of https://github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB says "Official DirectFB GitHub
>> Repository".
> 
> Why did he make a new account on github then? Commits to the old directfb
> repo were done from a different account (https://github.com/dfbdok). Also,
> there has been no activity whatsoever since October, and no announcement
> anywhere, and no response to my request or the other open issue in that
> repo. I wouldn't trust that directfb is still alive; we need to wait and
> see.
> 
> To me, it looks likely that the funding was cut, Denis Kropp has tried to
> keep the project alive but then just abandoned it.

Lets just wait and point our recipes to new github repo,
There are users of directfb in OE,moreover October 2015 wasn’t long
ago. Its too early to consider it dead.

> 
> Alex
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