Re: [RFC] Remove older freetype versions

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 10/12/2010 12:41 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 12-10-10 18:26, Tom Rini wrote:
>> Hey all,
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>> I'd like to remove all versions of freetype before 2.4.3.  The only dist
>> which is pinning freetype currently does so via
>> conf/distro/include/preferred-opie-versions.inc and that pins to a
>> non-existent version (it's using OPIE_VERSION which seems wrong).  All
>> of the previous versions have various security issues, including
>> remotely exploitable ones.  Only the very oldest version we have as a
>> D_P -1 so everyone was using 2.3.12 and will be going up to 2.4.3
>> (libraries are compat).
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> Speaking of freetype, the bytecode patent expired, so we can turn that
> on and get nicer text :)
>
> And removing older freetypes is a good idea

I'd like to point people at openwmbedded/removal.txt. This would be a 
good place to schedule things for deletion. As in I added a new version 
and made it active, but do not want to delete the older version for a 
couple of months just in case something crops up. So leave a note in 
removal.txt to look are removing a recipe on a certain date.

Philip