[oe] [meta-xfce][PATCH] xfce4-panel: fix QA issue 'installed-vs-shipped'

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:09 AM Mark Asselstine
<mark.asselstine at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:54 AM Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6/18/18 12:50 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> > Hi Mark
> >> >
> >> > It seems your distro is not inheriting it globally. Here I have
> >> > INHERIT_DISTRO ?=  "debian devshell sstate license remove-libtool"
> >>
> >> So is remove-libtool a recipe or a distro option?
> >>
> >> I'm asking because doing this half-way is causing a lot of confusion.
> >>
> >> If it's a distro option, then the recipes should work without it being set.  If
> >> it's a recipe option, then the recipes that need it should use it.
> >>
> >> Right now it doesn't seem to be working with these recipes because they don't
> >> package the .la files UNLESS it's enabled.  So the fix is either to package them
> >> (by default) or inherit the remove-libtool.
> >>
> >
> > since we make it as part of meta/conf/distro/defaultsetup.conf
> > its a default policy,  its perfectly fine for a distro to disregard that
> > however, then you fall into a non-default case. I am willing to accept
> > per recipe patches but I would recommend to consider it as a distro
> > feature for your distro.
> >
>
> Andreas,
>
> Can you revert your "various classes recipes: Remove FILES entries for
> dbg/dev packages" then? If this is a distro feature then these recipes
> need to build without the QA issue and without the remove-libtool
> distro feature being set.

This is in default features so I would not recommend revert, distros
not using this feature are in best position to fix it, as I said
before those patches are acceptable.