On Wed, Jan 19, 2011, James Westby wrote: > Right, but what would they do? That's my point. > > If you really want to push Andoid in to v2 then we can write code to > identify/specify image type, then defer Android/linux_image combination > with a specific error message. > > The point of a format specifier is such that l-i-t won't try to act on > things that are added after that version was released. If the old code > won't do the wrong thing then we don't need a format bump.
That's exactly my point: have the next version of the code try to do the right thing. Maybe I actually have broken expectations: I expect l-i-t would reject hwpacks with unknown fields. That's the failure I'm trying to avoid if we know we're going to introduce a linux_image field and that it can be safely ignored. It's a bit like when Debian introduced Breaks, by adding support to dpkg to simply treat the field in a dumb way, and then adding full support the next cycle, as to allow using old dpkg for upgrades. -- Loïc Minier _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
