[oe] orphaned files

Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 06:53:27 UTC 2010


2010/8/20 Vitus Jensen <vjensen at gmx.de>:

>
>> I thought I made a mistake in the script, but after verification I have
>> not.
>> The recipes you mention have been removed a few days ago
>>
>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=e5287904a9dddc8ddc0f486d8526bc8cfda427b7
>
> But I made a mistake when I used git fetch and forgot the merge :-( Sorry to
> have caused noice.
>
>
>> It there any particular reason why you want to have both the 1.8 and
>> 1.9 versions in the archive?
>> If so, we should revert the commit above (and then of course the patch
>> file itself should not be removed either.
>
> Well, htmldoc_1.9.x-r1571.bb fetches an older "developer snapshot" as
> www.htmldoc.org/ calls it.  The download link on that page offers 1.8.27 as
> the official version.  1.8.28 is in the work.  In my opinion one should
> always offer to build the official version, not some revision from an
> arbitrary point of time.
>
> Having said this 1.9.x-r1571 was added because it contains a feature which
> one customer required and wasn't in the official release from that time. I
> don't know whether someone at all is using that recipe now.  So it's only
> the official vs. developer version thingy.

Vitus as the owner/maintainer of the recipe do you want me to reinstate 1.8.28 ?

Frans




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