Re: [yocto-patches] [meta-java] QA Issue: Missing Upstream-Status in patch

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 08:27 +0000, wangmy via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> It's definitely the best thing to be able to do this
> 
> But there are many patches with this problem, and it is uncertain
> what the purpose of the patch was at that time (many patches do not
> have commit information).
> In addition, most upstream have not been maintained or updated for a
> long time, so the feasibility of modifying them all seems not very
> high.
> 
> It is best for the author of the patch to make the modifications.

That layer is struggling for maintainer time and the authors of the
patches have moved on to other things a long time ago. I therefore
don't think it will happen by the author or the layer maintainer.

We do really need to work out that information but it isn't an easy
job. This is why we now require it but these patches date from before
we did that. It will need someone to spend time on it.
Cheers,

Richard