Re: master/main branch renaming and bitbake

["Benjamin Gilbert" <bgilbert@backtick.net>]

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On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 01:09 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:

> 
> Some of our users have complained, yes. That isn't a conscious decision on
> 
> "our" part, just a rather unfortunate and unplanned consequence of the
> fact
> we're pretty strict about declaring where we get our sources.
> 
> The advice to anyone hitting this issue is to add in the correct branch
> to the SRC_URI. It is simple and easy to do, can be in bbappends
> or even changed via anonymous python and similar if necessary. We've
> already
> found the issue with several core recipes, we simply updated them and most
> 
> users didn't notice. I would even likely take that kind of change into
> older
> otherwise unmaintained branches and I think I did so in at least one case
> in
> the past.
> 
> There is no intent to peanlize or complain, my intent is just to deal with
> 
> it like any other upstream source change, these things happen all the
> time.
> I am stating that here for any other maintainers to read and suggest they
> follow oe-core's lead.

Whoops, just saw this.  Thanks for the position statement, Richard; very much appreciated.

Best,
--Benjamin Gilbert

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