[oe] python skills and bug 2412

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 17:55 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote:
> Hi
> Rodigo and me are suffering from bug 2412[0]. We talked a bit about the
> issue and I provided an idea on how to fix it. Unfortunately I lack the
> python experience to do it. I do not understand how the name conversion
> in debian.bbclass is actually done and where I could add code to replace
> slashes with hyphens.
> 
> Can anyone who has a better understanding of this help us out?
> 
> Regards
> Robert
> 
> [0] - http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2412

I commented on the bug but I will repeat here for wider exposure.

"The real problem here is that virtual/libx11 should not be appearing in
the package manager namespace. RPROVIDES = "virtual/libx11" is plain
wrong and is the real bug."

I've discussed this on the mailing list in the past, virtual/* shouldn't
ever be ending up in the runtime namespaces :/.

Cheers,

Richard