On Thu, 11 Dec 2025 at 15:29, Weisser, Pascal.ext via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are several reasons for this change: > > First, according to the recipe style guide, HOMEPAGE is a required variable > and should be contained in all recipes: > > https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.html#required-variables > > Second, the recipe linter oelint-adv also wants HOMEPAGE to be set.
Sadly the docs are somewhat inconsistent there. The section says 'required', but on the other hand 'should' is usually interpreted as a recommendation, but not a strict requirement. The actual enforced requirements are in the recipe_qa task, and from what I just checked, only SUMMARY must be always present, while HOMEPAGE is required only when SRC_URI is fetching from external sources on the network. oelint-adv is a 3rd party linter, and things it suggests when using its default configuration should not be taken as guidelines for oe-core contributions. > Third, the HOMEPAGE is included in the SBOM if it is set. It would be great, > if every component would contain the HOMEPAGE to be consistent. The issue is that following this principle mechanically clutters recipes, packages, and various other derived items (such as sboms) with entries that aren't actually useful or helpful to humans. So I'd rather not do it. > I checked what other recipes are doing when they just provide local files. > The recipes mini-x-session or python3-dtschema-wrapper also set HOMEPAGE to > "https://yoctoproject.org";, so I thought that would be the accepted way to > have a HOMEPAGE for recipes that only provide local files. > This patchset has now merged (no one made objections in the patch review, and RP took it), so if any interested parties feel strongly about further tweaks, they should make them on top of master. Alex
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