[OE-core] should a "*git.bb" recipe lock that recipe to a fixed version?

[Burton, Ross]

On 30 October 2016 at 17:35, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:

>   fair enough ... i'm embarrassed to admit i didn't really understand
> the versioning selection so i'm going to examine it way more carefully
> now. i wonder how many recipes in oe-core are "_git" recipes that, in
> the end, just lock down to a specific version. as you say, i was a bit
> surprised.
>

Personally I've been endorsing the practise where _git.bb is only used for
recipes that are actually tracking git development branches, and if it's
just a release that it simply fetched over git via a SHA of a release tag
then the recipe should be _1.2.3.bb for clarity.

Ross
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