[oe] [meta-qt5][PATCH] populate_sdk_qt5.bbclass: Fix PACKAGE_GROUP deprecation warning

Otavio Salvador otavio at ossystems.com.br
Sun Apr 20 20:23:22 UTC 2014


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jacob Kroon <jacob.kroon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:12:45PM +0200, Jacob Kroon wrote:
>> > Fixes the following warning:
>> >
>> > WARNING: PACKAGE_GROUP is deprecated, please use FEATURE_PACKAGES instead
>>
>> It's correct patch, but I'm a bit tempted to take this patch after
>> branching daisy, because some people are using latest meta-qt5 with
>> older oe-core releases and this undoing this change is easy to miss
>> (unlike e.g. cmake .bbappends which fail when not updated for correct
>> oe-core releases).
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
> I think I follow you. So the deprecation happened in commit
> d703e07ea5056624101e1bc48f10d25b602635e9, 2014-03-07, so I guess only
> daisy/master will give the warning. For older oe-core releases with
> meta-qt5 master, this patch could silently break stuff I can imagine. So
> like you propose, keeping this one for master only, after branching daisy,
> seems like a good idea to me.

I prefer to drop the warning in daisy. It is always bad to have
warnings during the build and we ought to have it clean. As I said,
this will indeed break people but not many people are using this class
as this is quite new.

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