<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 23:32, Phil Blundell <<a href="mailto:pb@pbcl.net">pb@pbcl.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">However, I think the point still stands that the commit message needs to<br>
provide a better description of why the package is being removed. If you<br>
think it represents an ongoing maintenance headache that's already bad and<br>
only going to get worse, and this now outweighs its usefulness, let's just<br>
say that. Not all old software is problematic, and not all problematic<br>
software is old; the fact that the last release was 20 years ago is an<br>
interesting fact but in isolation that doesn't represent a problem.<br>
Indeed, compared to some other packages in oe-core, eight patches in<br>
total over a 20-year period doesn't seem like that bad of an average.<br></blockquote><div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Fair enough, I wrote a hasty commit message. Mistakes happen.<br></div><div><br></div><div> Can I say what my problem is? Here goes: so far, no one in this discussion offered actual help with the actual issue. If you need this or that functionality from Yocto, please try to place help ahead of complaints and criticism.</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Alex<br></div></div></div>