You are right, empty packages are not a good solution. I made a new patch and fixed the dependency instead.

On 04/06/2017 06:12 PM, Martin Jansa wrote:
NAK, no more useless empty packages, see ML it's discussed every few weeks.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Florian Wickert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    jack-dev depends on jack, which does not exist before this patch.
    The empty package satisfies this dependency.

    Signed-off-by: Florian Wickert <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>>
    ---
     meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_git.bb <http://jack_git.bb>
    | 2 ++
     1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

    diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_git.bb
    <http://jack_git.bb> b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_git.bb
    <http://jack_git.bb>
    index be5f7bb..61064f4 100644
    --- a/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_git.bb <http://jack_git.bb>
    +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-multimedia/jack/jack_git.bb <http://jack_git.bb>
    @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[opus] = "--opus=yes,--opus=no,libopus"
     # portaudio is for windows builds only
     EXTRA_OECONF = "--portaudio=no"

    +ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"
    +
     PACKAGES =+ "libjack jack-server jack-utils"

     FILES_libjack = "${libdir}/*.so.* ${libdir}/jack/*.so"
    --
    2.1.4

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