From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:35:44 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] linuxconsoletools: new package In-Reply-To: <87wp86eqzb.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <201706191656.v5JGuLc9093352@mx1.sonologic.net> <20170619214458.7fe41175@windsurf.home> <87a852g8v0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> <20170620150550.7cbbae30@windsurf.lan> <87wp86eqzb.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20170620153544.05bb6470@windsurf.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com