Hi Otavio
> > Who's going to provide ongoing maintenance for all that? I would like > > Lei to establish himself as the maintainer (through the maintainers.inc > > file). > > Agreed; 2007 I was still one of developers of it IIRC and since then, Jim has > improved it > quite a lot. Thank you. > > To be honest, parted at that time has several issues with bigger disk sectors > and other > stuff. I wouldn't like to see projects relying on such old and buggy version. > Old version does have some issues. But I think it is better to provide a non-v3 version to user who does not mind of these issues. Cheers Lei > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Otavio > Salvador > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 10:00 PM > To: Alexander Kanavin > Cc: OE-core > Subject: Re: [OE-core] FW: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] parted_1.8.6.bb: add parted > that not > GPLv3 > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Alexander Kanavin > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 07/07/2015 04:38 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: > > > >> How about renaming the recipe, so that it doesn't clash with the > >> GPLv3 version? For example, parted1_1.8.6.bb > >> <http://parted1_1.8.6.bb>. Then it can be kept outside of oe-core. > >> > >> > >> As they're just version variations that would be overly complex. > >> Dropping it in oe-core as it's a non-v3 alternative doesn't seem to > >> be a problem to me (as there's plenty of precedent for that already). > > > > > > My problem is that parted 1.8.6 was released in 2007, and the recipe > > already carries eight patches with it (and none of them has any > > information about their origin). > > > > Who's going to provide ongoing maintenance for all that? I would like > > Lei to establish himself as the maintainer (through the maintainers.inc > > file). > > Agreed; 2007 I was still one of developers of it IIRC and since then, Jim has > improved it > quite a lot. > > To be honest, parted at that time has several issues with bigger disk sectors > and other > stuff. I wouldn't like to see projects relying on such old and buggy version. > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
