[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] binutils: fix PV to respect upstream tag and also cve database

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 01:17:11PM +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 13:15, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 12:07, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The problem with setting PV properly, is that 2.32 is less than 2.32.0
> > > and will cause the 'version going backwards' problem. But if RP/Khem
> > > are fine with it, I would prefer your patch.
> >
> > I just had a look at the code in bitbake and yes, it actually even
> > tests that 1 < 1.0.  I'd say that there's an argument for handling .0
> > releases specially and considering 2.32 == 2.32.0.
> 
> Of course that test exists for people using feeds, and at least dpkg
> thinks 2.32 < 2.32.0, so even if we changed the test the feed would
> still be broken.

Breaking feeds on purpose is bad, so this is a case to pump PE?

-- 
Tom
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