[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] linuxconsoletools: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:08:03 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > Hello,
>  > On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:55:06 +0200, Koen Martens wrote:  
>  >> Linuxconsoletools contains the inputattach utility
>  >> to attach legacy serial devices to the Linux kernel
>  >> input layer and joystick utilities to calibrate and
>  >> test joysticks and joypads.
>  >> 
>  >> The buildroot package adds options to build only certain
>  >> tools.
>  >> 
>  >> website: http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole/
>  >> 
>  >> Signed-off-by: Koen Martens <gmc@sonologic.nl>  
> 
>  > Thanks, I've applied, after doing a few minor tweaks. See below.  
> 
> Sorry for the slow response, I only noticed the patch now.
> 
> We already have (an old version of) this code in the input-tools
> package, so the binaries here will conflict with those.
> 
> What is the way forward? Drop the old package and add Config.in.legacy
> handling for the old symbols?

Thanks for pointing out, I didn't notice there was an overlap with our
input-tools package. Our input-tools package references
http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ as  the upstream URL, which no
longer exists, and fetches a Debian package from 2010 called joystick.
All of this is a pretty confusing:

Buildroot package name != upstream URL project != Debian package name

Since linuxconsoletools provides the three utilities provided by
input-tools, has a name matching the upstream project, and uses a more
recent version, I would suggest to drop input-tools indeed, and add a
Config.in.legacy option that automatically enables linuxconsoletools.

Thomas
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