[OE-core] [PATCH] mtd-utils: Upgrade to 2.0.0

Patrick Ohly patrick.ohly at intel.com
Thu Mar 2 12:08:13 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 10:59 +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/01/2017 at 19:28:46 +0000, Mike Crowe wrote:
> > Upstream has started using automake which means that the recipe must now
> > inherit from autotools and pkgconfig.
> > 
> > The source tree has been reorganised too which requires the paths in the
> > patches to be modified. None of the patches appear to have been applied
> > upstream.
> > 
> 
> They haven't been applied because they have never been submitted
> upstream (despite being tagged with "Upstream-Status: Pending")

That's the problem with "Pending" - it doesn't really mean that the
original author has specific plans in place to get the patches upstream,
and because there's no systematic tracking of "Pending" patches there's
also no pressure to do so once the patch has been accepted into OE-core.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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