[OE-core] [PATCH 4/5] u-boot: Drop PV altogether

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 03:09:26PM +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 10/19/2016 12:55 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >Drop the explicit setting of PV altogether. This changes the U-Boot
> >version string from "v20yy.mm" to "20yy.mm" , so layer setting the
> >PREFERRED_VERSION_u-boot must be updated by removing the leading 'v'.
> 
> Don't drop the 'v'. Package versions need to monotonically increase,
> and also package version needs to match git tags so that upstream
> version check can work.
> 
> Basically, rename the recipe filenames so that 'v' is in their
> versions, and then you can drop the PV from the recipes. All in a
> single patch.

This has been discussed at OEDEM - we are trying to unify u-boot recipes. 
Looking at the layer index, it seems there's 50/50 split of using vXXXX.YY vs. 
just XXXX.YY versions:

https://layers.openembedded.org/layerindex/branch/master/recipes/?q=u-boot

So, I'd vote to drop "v" prefix and bump PE to get it sorted out...

-- 
Denys