[OE-core] [OE-Core][Thud][PATCH 1/3] lttng-ust: update to 2.10.3

[akuster808]

On 3/14/19 9:29 AM, Jonathan Rajotte-Julien wrote:
>>> Disregard this series. It does not follow the project guideline regarding recipe
>>> update for stable release.
>> There are exceptions when a package update is a bugfix only change. I
>> know the kernel, openssl, bind, curl and a few others fall into that
>> category. Many minor version updates tend to be  bug fix only but that
>> all depends on the upstream project policies. Binutils does not follow
>> that scheme as they add features in minor version updates. This is what
>> I know from personal experience. What helps the project along with the
>> maintainer is  having a brief summary of the changes in the commit
>> message. I am at the mercy of commit message.
> I get that. I assumed that most project are *sane* and stick to something
> similar to SemVer. Sorry for that.
>
> We follow SemVer [1] for the following projects:
>
>     Babeltrace
>     LTTng-tools
>     LTTng-ust
>     LTTng-modules
>     userspace-rcu
>
> This series contains only PATCH level update (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH).
>
> You will note that the lttng-tools recipes was not updated to the 2.10.x release
> in this series.
>
> Side note, as a project (lttng) we recommend that lttng-tools and lttng-ust be
> upgraded in lockstep (MINOR == MINOR). But since we also conform to SemVer there
> is no problem using an older MINOR version of lttng-tools with a newer MINOR
> version of lttng-ust. The other way around is not recommended and will simply
> not build most of the time.
>
> lttng-modules is *special* since we fix thing to allow support of
> newer kernel as time goes by. Again, we do not add features across PATCH level
> release.
>
> Still, I think I understand a bit more the constraint oe-core and yocto stable
> branch are facing and would not mind if the recipes stay at the version they are
> now.
>
> [1] https://semver.org/

Thank you for the explanation. This will help me moving forward.
>
>> Can you confirm this is bug fix only update?
>>
> Yes it is.
Great. I took your series and have them in the builds.

regards,
Armin

>
> Cheers
>