[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] linuxconsoletools: new package

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:19:36 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  >> What is the way forward? Drop the old package and add Config.in.legacy
>  >> handling for the old symbols?  
> 
>  > Thanks for pointing out, I didn't notice there was an overlap with our
>  > input-tools package. Our input-tools package references
>  > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ as  the upstream URL, which no
>  > longer exists, and fetches a Debian package from 2010 called joystick.
>  > All of this is a pretty confusing:  
> 
>  > Buildroot package name != upstream URL project != Debian package name  
> 
>  > Since linuxconsoletools provides the three utilities provided by
>  > input-tools, has a name matching the upstream project, and uses a more
>  > recent version, I would suggest to drop input-tools indeed, and add a
>  > Config.in.legacy option that automatically enables linuxconsoletools.  
> 
> Yes, I agree - The input-tools package is very old and hasn't been
> updated in close to 10 years.
> 
> Will you send a patch to add the legacy handling or should I?

I wasn't planning on sending such a patch, so feel free to do it :)

Thomas
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