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Subject: Re: what's the purpose of tarballs in the OE repo?
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   following up on a thread from the bitbake dev ML, what is the
> purpose of actual tarballs in the OE dev repository?

best way to find out is probably to do a "git log --finde-copies-harder"
on the files in question and asking the committers directly is probably
the best way to find out.

If they have otherwise no home on the net, I'm sure we can provide
hosting somewhere.