[oe] [PATCH 4/6] parted: drop versions up to 1.8.8

[Otavio Salvador]

Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> writes:

> On 12-02-09 17:38, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> Versions older then 1.8.8 are not maintained upstream and looks to
>> have no users inside of OE hence makes no sense to be kept.
>
>> --- a/conf/checksums.ini
>> +++ b/conf/checksums.ini
>> @@ -16610,26 +16610,6 @@ sha256=211a0092cfd50923eaad75c20630c0a1818e56605d4b6fbc10702d5a34ea7107
>>   md5=129f8623dc4f70188a015e3cbd7eae82
>>   sha256=74188aff5f2e5b77515a8cf3979199a598d58da8e4f573462b59cbf94cf1c99d
>>
>> -[ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.6.23.tar.gz]
>> -md5=7e46a32def60ea355c193d9225691742
>> -sha256=5144f413dcce1a0b94263ebf3730f2a2afe6a9557bf261f9d6f48c890423f4c8
>> -
>> -[ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.6.25.1.tar.gz]
>> -md5=8ad8b2c8aa865d9d6a43a4ecfe021782
>> -sha256=b8f151450dc71e2477d44b7f9ebb77a9ccf8d08776b77edb9bddee07885f1b02
>> -
>> -[ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.0.tar.gz]
>> -md5=52d3e565fc3369d3388a9e02d4b17410
>> -sha256=6c57feb082c23e52f38366fff4ffa3961e5dc294d4ebb61ffa31462b5ae3681e
>> -
>> -[ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.2.tar.gz]
>> -md5=cce5bce8fa1d430e1ca3de3722807e01
>> -sha256=2f67c40e2589e7804213493f24ebf80cd10847b47c95098854db0250511c3ed1
>> -
>> -[ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-1.8.7.tar.gz]
>> -md5=2ec5cb88b146f1a8ccd5b389455503c6
>> -sha256=bffb732ab47a8dfb528ab2513f6ae82a4f795c119decfe1f96310bf32c4dfc9e
>
> There's no point in deleting things from checksums.ini, they get added
> back once someone uses the .ini in TMPDIR to add checksums.
> Otherwise, the patch looks ok.

I think people are suppose to clean the checksums.ini before adding the
missing ones instead of blindly adding all them. Besides, keeping it in
ini just makes it bigger so I'd prefer to drop them and NACK the patches
that add them back.

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