From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:17:25 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Minicom git Repo and new version In-Reply-To: <46fe66d9-b985-c338-2b84-376646793542@micronovasrl.com> References: <46fe66d9-b985-c338-2b84-376646793542@micronovasrl.com> Message-ID: <20180731231725.638cbe53@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:59:02 +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote: > Adam(Minicom Maintainer) in Cc set up a repository for Minicom here: > https://salsa.debian.org/minicom-team/minicom > > Some fix and support s485 has been added since last package version. > Most of all, now it's under git, > so I wanted to ask if it would help if I create a patch managing Minicom > package as a git(possibly using github helper) and bumping version to > the last git commit. > Or create new package based on git using same version as now. > Or wait for Adam to tag a real version to do everything once. Yes, you can send an update to use this new Git repository. It will of course be even better when Adam does a tagged release, but in the mean time, we can use a random Git commit especially if there's a good justification behind it (RS485 support for example). Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com