On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 12:06 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 09:28 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > > continuing my travels, ran across "PRIORITY" variable that i > > > > was > > > > not > > > > aware of, was introduced in bitbake.conf way back in 2005 in > > > > oelint.bbclass, but there are only a few lonely references to it > > > > these days: > > > > > > > > meta/conf/documentation.conf:PRIORITY[doc] = "Indicates the > > > > importance > > > > of a package. The default value is 'optional'. Other standard > > > > values > > > > are 'required', 'standard' and 'extra'." > > > > > > > > meta/conf/bitbake.conf:PRIORITY = "optional" > > > > > > > > meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass: fields.append(["Priority > > > > : > > > > %s\n", ['PRIORITY']]) > > > > > > > > meta/classes/package_ipk.bbclass:IPKEXTRAVARS = "PRIORITY > > > > MAINTAINER > > > > PACKAGE_ARCH HOMEPAGE" > > > > > > > > meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass: fields.append(["Priority > > > > : > > > > %s\n", ['PRIORITY']]) > > > > > > > > meta/classes/package_deb.bbclass:do_package_write_deb[vardeps] += > > > > "PKGV PKGR PKGV DESCRIPTION SECTION PRIORITY MAINTAINER DPKG_ARCH > > > > PN > > > > HOMEPAGE" > > > > > > > > is this doing anything useful these days? > > > > > > Not really, no. > > > > any objection to my submitting a patch to remove it? > > I'm torn on that. The Priority field is a standard part of a debian > package ( > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-priority > ) and also part of opkg's implementation. > > We don't use it, I'm not sure that means we should remove the code > which would allow someone to though. > > I also don't know if dpkg/apt supports an unset value for it.
ok, i'll pass on that and move on, there's plenty of other stuff to work on. rday
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