On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kana...@linux.intel.com> 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 Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core