[oe] RFC: add osso version of libtool and libatk

pHilipp Zabel philipp.zabel at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 17:38:37 UTC 2008


On Jan 8, 2008 6:08 PM, Holger Freyther <zecke at selfish.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:59:50 Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > Can you tell me what is the purpose of this patch? I looked into 15000
> > lines of the atk patch and cannot find any single change except adding
> > debian directory (not needed for OE) and modifying or adding of
> > auto-generated files (documentation, config.* and marshalls).
> >
> > I am not able to find any single change in the code.
>
> I briefly talked with Robert on IRC. The requirement is not to use the osso
> variant but the upstream version. For libtool this is 1.5.6 and for atk
> probably the same applies.
>
> My conclusion is there is nothing wrong with (re)adding the versions with a
> DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" and I asked him to proceed.

If the those are the unpatched upstream versions, and they are older than the
latest versions in OE, is the DEFAULT_PREFERENCE even needed?

regards
Philipp




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