[oe] bitbake does not fail when QA issues encountered

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/2/9 Maupin, Chase <chase.maupin at ti.com>:
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>> Subject: Re: [oe] bitbake does not fail when QA issues encountered
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>> 2011/2/4 Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>:
>> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 15:26, Frans Meulenbroeks
>> > <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> The recipes at hand are:
>> > ...
>> >> cups: there is someone bitching about that this is 1.2, but he
>> >> apparently prefers bitching upon resolving the issue. Probably the
>> >> best solution is to drop the DP = -1 from the 1.4.4 recipe
>> > ...
>> >
>> > I can work on cups next week (I am on VAC right now).
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>> Actually the cups thing is the one I would feel fairly comfortable with.
>> The question here is mainly when/how to drop the DP = -1.
>> A pinning of 1.4.4 is already in my local.conf for quite a while.
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> In fact, as a quick fix applying something like http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=164569 should work for version 1.2.12.  I ran desktop-file-validate against the cups.desktop file in version 1.4.4 of cups and it has a whole different set of errors:
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> desktop/cups.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value "Printing" in key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" requires another category to be present among the following categories: HardwareSettings;Settings
> desktop/cups.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value "HardwareSettings" in key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" requires another category to be present among the following categories: Settings
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This would probably be ok as a quick fix (also saw your patch for it).
In the end I feel moving to a newer cups would be the preferred solution
Otavio wrote last week he had a better recipe and would post it this
week. Guess that might be a better solution.
Personally I have 1.4.4 in my local.conf for several weeks.

Frans