[oe] [oe-commits] Koen Kooi : angstrom 2009.X: bump automake-native to 1.10. 2 since some idiot deleted 1.10

[Koen Kooi]

On 04-03-09 10:59, Martyn Welch wrote:
> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, den 03.03.2009, 17:38 -0500 schrieb Philip Balister:
>>> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>>> Am Dienstag, den 03.03.2009, 21:49 +0100 schrieb GIT User account:
>>>>> Module: openembedded.git
>>>>> Branch: org.openembedded.dev
>>>>> Commit: eee859a9c348871d6d644ece76bc57b151cc80e8
>>>>> URL:
>>>>> http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git&a=commit;h=eee859a9c348871d6d644ece76bc57b151cc80e8
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Author: Koen Kooi <koen at openembedded.org>
>>>>> Date: Tue Mar 3 21:47:57 2009 +0100
>>>>>
>>>>> angstrom 2009.X: bump automake-native to 1.10.2 since some idiot
>>>>> deleted 1.10
>>>> Ah, are we in that mood again? Take more pills.
>>> We need to have a serious discussion about deleting recipes. I know
>>> the deletion of python 2.5 will force me to address the 2.5->2.6
>>> upgrade in gnuradio before the upstream developers are ready.
>>>
>>> We need a way to remove recipes, but doing it as part of adding a new
>>> recipe is causing problems for OE users.
>>
>> Yes, we need to have a serious discussion about lots of things
>> surrounding the OpenEmbedded project, before the popularity kills the
>> project. Judging from the amount of interest though, I don't see that
>> happening -- neither short term nor long term.
>>
>
> Ok, so if a serious discussion is out of the question, lets just have a
> normal discussion.
>
> I see this issue to be partially related to the on going discussions
> regarding submissions. I assume that the "Commit_Policy"[1] on the wiki
> is either unofficial, out-of-date or optional as it states:
>
> * Changes to core toolchain components need review (gcc, binutils,
> libtool, pkgconfig, automake, autoconf etc.)
>
> Where:
>
> "Review" is defined as posting it on the mailing lists and getting
> positive agreement from two or more core developers.
> Now a quick check of my OpenEmbedded mail folder doesn't chuck up any
> messages with automake in the title that have a patch with this commit.
> Maybe I'm looking on the wrong mailing list.

I haven't seen anything like that either, and upgrading automake *did* 
break, since a lot of apps now do 'install -s' which calls host strip :(
This is exactly why we did extensive testing the last time we touched 
automake.

regards,

Koen