From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 08:46:36 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/5] package/efl/libevas: Switch to giflib In-Reply-To: References: <1422300260-5361-1-git-send-email-bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> <1422300260-5361-4-git-send-email-bernd.kuhls@t-online.de> <20150307173234.57c8bf4f@free-electrons.com> <20150308081520.1a6e9fc7@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150308084636.06f56bb6@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Fabio Porcedda, On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 08:28:44 +0100, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > I understand that is a legacy repository but because you talked about > to send a patch upstream i was trying to understand if there is any > chance that the patch will be accepted. > > So when you have talked about to send the patch upstream didn't know > about the legacy status of this repository? Well, when you want to send a patch upstream, then obviously you have to send the patch based on the latest upstream version. Which generally involves bumping the Buildroot package to use the latest stable version from upstream. In the case of EFL, it indeed involves quite a bit of work, because all the libraries that used to be split in separate tarballs are now provided as one single tarball by upstream. See https://phab.enlightenment.org/phame/live/3/post/efl_1_8/ : """ We have merged Ecore, Edje, Eet, Eeze, Efreet, Eina, Eio, Embryo, Emotion, Ethumb, Evas and Evil into a single EFL package (as you can see above these are no longer there, but inside the EFL distribution). We also added in Eldbus, EPhysics, and Escape. """ Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com