[oe] xorg recipes cleanup

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/8/16 Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:25:51PM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:

>>
>> I could not test, as patch 2 is not on patchwork (and retrieving them
>> from gmail is somewhat tricky)
>
> I'm checking why :/ only clue is
> bitbake at jama ~/oe $ git send-email 0002-xorg-lib-move-older-not-pinned-versions-to-obsolete-.patch
> The following files are 8bit, but do not declare a
> Content-Transfer-Encoding.
>    0002-xorg-lib-move-older-not-pinned-versions-to-obsolete-.patch
> Which 8bit encoding should I declare [UTF-8]?
> <enter>
>
>> Do we indeed want to move this to obsolete? Is there a point in
>> retaining it? Why not just rm them (they are still in git)
>> Or do we want obsolete to become the graveyard of old recipes?
>
> I usually move it to obsolete where it's not parsed if you have
> 'standard'
> BBFILES := "/OE/dev/recipes/*/*.bb"
> and if nobody screams then I'll remove whole obsolete/xorg dir after a
> while.
>
> I know it's SCM and I can look to every version in history, but while
> it's still in obsolete it's faster to call just diff if I need to check
> what changed since previous version.

Ah ok, well in that case I have no problems with moving to obsolete.
I was assuming that would be the end-of-the-line. If it is temp until
things stabilize, fine with me.

Frans