[oe] Fixing OE.dev dependency issues

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Richard Purdie wrote:
> http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/temp/oe-depends-fixes.patch

> but of course once we do this, bitbake 1.6 is no longer going to work
> with the metadata since this change is not backwards compatible.

This shouldn't be a problem for most people. I guess only a handful of
insane projects like OpenMoko were brave enough to patch BitBake ;)

> I'm proposing to release bitbake 1.8.2 with code to handle the above,
> and epoch handling code in the very near future. We will then have to
> aim to make bitbake 1.8.2 the minimum bitbake version for .dev before
> the above fix can be checked in and epoch packages can be more
> widely/easily used. Does anyone have any objections to a move to bitbake
> 1.8 in due course? What timescale would people class as acceptable?

2 months after announcing?

Regards,

:M:
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