On 3/14/19 9:29 AM, Jonathan Rajotte-Julien wrote: >>> Disregard this series. It does not follow the project guideline regarding >>> recipe >>> update for stable release. >> There are exceptions when a package update is a bugfix only change. I >> know the kernel, openssl, bind, curl and a few others fall into that >> category. Many minor version updates tend to be bug fix only but that >> all depends on the upstream project policies. Binutils does not follow >> that scheme as they add features in minor version updates. This is what >> I know from personal experience. What helps the project along with the >> maintainer is having a brief summary of the changes in the commit >> message. I am at the mercy of commit message. > I get that. I assumed that most project are *sane* and stick to something > similar to SemVer. Sorry for that. > > We follow SemVer [1] for the following projects: > > Babeltrace > LTTng-tools > LTTng-ust > LTTng-modules > userspace-rcu > > This series contains only PATCH level update (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH). > > You will note that the lttng-tools recipes was not updated to the 2.10.x > release > in this series. > > Side note, as a project (lttng) we recommend that lttng-tools and lttng-ust be > upgraded in lockstep (MINOR == MINOR). But since we also conform to SemVer > there > is no problem using an older MINOR version of lttng-tools with a newer MINOR > version of lttng-ust. The other way around is not recommended and will simply > not build most of the time. > > lttng-modules is *special* since we fix thing to allow support of > newer kernel as time goes by. Again, we do not add features across PATCH level > release. > > Still, I think I understand a bit more the constraint oe-core and yocto stable > branch are facing and would not mind if the recipes stay at the version they > are > now. > > [1] https://semver.org/
Thank you for the explanation. This will help me moving forward. > >> Can you confirm this is bug fix only update? >> > Yes it is. Great. I took your series and have them in the builds. regards, Armin > > Cheers > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
