[oe] [meta-oe,thud][PATCH 0/6] libiio: backports from master

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 03:55:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 01:00:25PM +0100, Martin Siegumfeldt wrote:
> > Backport libiio patches from master bumping libiio to v0.18 and
> 
> Upgrading on an upstream stable branch can be OK,
> especially when this is the lowest risk way to fix CVEs.
> 
> But upgrading to new releases on the master branch is usually not worth 
> the regression risk - the default is to avoid changes in OE stable branches.
> 
> > allows building python3 bindings
> >...
> 
> No new features in OE stable branches.

And even more important:
No removal of features users might be using.

Like the Python2 bindings in this case.

cu
Adrian

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