[OE-core] [PATCH 08/11] lrzsz: remove the recipe

Alexander Kanavin alex.kanavin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 20 22:12:37 UTC 2019


On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 22:38, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:

> If this is the actual reason for removing lrszsz, the commit message should
> say so.  As it stands, this patch provides no meaningful justification for
> why the package should be removed, it just contains a statement about the
> last release having been a long time ago (which may be true, but isn't
> obviously relevant) and some vague sneering about "proper networking"
> which doesn't seem to be helpful either.
>

The gettext problem is the immediate reason, but the broader reason is that
the code is not maintained, and we should try to avoid burdening the
project with unmaintained code. There's already 8 custom patches fixing
issues caused by lack of upstream maintenance, and the gettext certainly
won't be the last required fix. I have no interest in zmodem transfers,
thus I opted for recipe removal.

When the last release was is quite relevant from that perspective.

Alex
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