[oe] Where to place a new recipe for epeg

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Andreas Baak <andreas.baak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl/epeg_svn.bb
>
> Hi all,
>
> epeg is a fast jpeg scaling tool, originally developed in the efl project
> https://www.enlightenment.org/ . In the current version of efl, the source
> code of epeg is not present anymore since the tool is deprecated. Its
> functionality has become obsolete by Evas
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Foundation_Libraries#Defunct.2Fdeprecated_EFL_components).
> The source code of epeg is kept in a legacy repository
> https://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/OLD/ . The current epeg recipe downloads
> the sources from this legacy repository.
>
> The code for epeg has been adopted and improved by mattes
> (https://github.com/mattes/epeg).
> I would like to replace the recipe efl/epeg_svn.bb by a new recipe
> epeg_git.bb.
> However, I am not sure if will be accepted to delete the efl/epeg_svn.bb.
> Also, I don't know in which folder to put it.
> meta-openembedded/meta-efl/recipes-efl/efl would not be a good option since
> epeg does not belong to efl anymore.

you can submit a patch to replace/upgrade existing recipe, if that
source have moved out but it still is EFL component then let it remain
where it is, if not then move it to meta-oe/recipes-support/epeg
>
> Any thoughts?
> Cheers,
> Andreas
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