Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH-NEXT v3 1/6] support/download/dl-wrapper: add concept of download post-processing

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello Christian,

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:13:02 -0700
Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in> wrote:

> >  - The initial series also had support for Cargo, I think we want to
> >    retain that as the idea was to solve both Go and Cargo at the same
> >    time, to make sure we have a solution that works for both.  
> 
> I don't have the experience with Rust to sign off on the Cargo
> portion, and I was unsure if it was confirmed to be ready for merging.
> So in the interest of getting these packages in (including gocryptfs)
> I sent the Go portion only.

When I sent the series, I had neither the experience with Go nor Rust :-)

> Can send the full thing with the Cargo as well... if really necessary,
> but can't we just do it in 2 patch series?

The idea of having a single series was to make sure we are able to
implement a mechanism that works (at least) for two different
vendoring-based package management systems.

> >  - PATCH-NEXT doesn't make any sense right now, there is no "next"
> >    branch.  
> 
> Ok, was just indicating that it's somewhat "next release" material
> (not for backport), I guess.

Whether something is to be considered for backport or not is a decision
that Peter Korsgaard does. And new features are by nature generally not
considered for backporting.

Cheers!

Thomas
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