Re: [PATCH 3/5] libpng12: remove the recipe

[Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com>]

Am Donnerstag, den 04.05.2017, 10:54 +0100 schrieb Burton, Ross:
> On 4 May 2017 at 10:18, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Then meta-oe can continue to host libpng12.
> > > 
> > 
> > I actually think allowing those recipes to fail and blacklisting them is
> > better. Moving libpng12 to meta-oe is the lazy way out; the proper way to
> > deal with such regressions is to look at the actual recipes, what they do,
> > why they need such an old version of libpng, and whether they should be
> > updated or removed from meta-oe altogether. The only way to get people to
> > do this real maintenance work is to break the build for them, sadly. I
> > cannot take on maintaining things in meta-oe in this way, I have to draw
> > the line somewhere, and this is it.
> > 

My concern at the moment is that anything removed now from oe-core will also be removed
in oe-core pyro in the foreseeable future but the fix or relocation in meta-xyz will
take time.

Around the release of morty the same happened with libwnck3 which then made morty fail for
anyone using libwnck3.

> 
> For what it's worth, glmark2 was fixed in 2014:
> https://github.com/glmark2/glmark2/commit/499aa81a68fb4c8aac1c80f0d6a4cce05941c4cc
> 
> glcompbench appears to be a fork of glmark, so the same fix should be
> trivial to apply.

I agree that the it is an easy fix for glmark2 and probably not that hard with glcompbench,
nonetheless its sometimes nice to get a head start before things break.

Max

> Ross