[oe] Fixing OE.dev dependency issues

[Koen Kooi]

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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> 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?

2 months is awfully long from an OE perspective, but I see your point. Maybe we should
have a page that shows when various intrusive patches are going to be committed?

regards,

Koen
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