Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 3/3] systemd: Build the systemctl executable

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 12:32:10PM +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 12:27, Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@linaro.org> wrote:
> > So changes without justification are fine then? I'm not against this change,
> > I would just like to understand why it's needed or proposed right now. A reason
> > could be just to reduce custom patches in oe-core. That would tell me that no
> > actual usecase is currently broken, apart from ukify.py and secureboot for which
> > I've sent a patch separately and which was seen in meta-arm side testing.
> 
> Yes, reducing the amount of custom code is sufficient justification in
> itself. If you need it explicitly spelled out, there you go.

I would like these to be explicitly written in commit messages. It is
hard to guess the reasons even when I'm actively following mailing lists
and irc, and even harder much later when all I have is git log and a bisect
pointing to specific commit or its cherry-pick on a stable branch.

Cheers,

-Mikko