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From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	marcin@bis.org.pl, d.lang@abatec.at, buildroot@buildroot.org,
	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] Indicating upstream status [was: [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:28:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230329112855.6110cf8d@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffed7523-6dbe-6d61-03e7-57cdbc732097@mind.be>

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:06:47 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> wrote:

>   Yeah, that's why I propose "Upstream:" - it's generic enough to cover all of 
> these cases. The contents can be freeform I think, check-package should just 
> check that the Upstream tag is present. And the documentation should give 
> examples of the five cases you mention.

Sure.

>   The "patch taken from downstream" is the only one which doesn't fit in the 
> "Upstream" thing. But it's also a situation we don't really like: we basically 
> don't want local patches, and a patch taken from some other distro _is_ a local 
> patch.

The reality is that we have such patches (for example to fix musl build
issues), and we somehow have to live with them.

Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-29  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-26 13:09 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc Florian Fainelli
2023-03-28 20:25 ` Yann E. MORIN
2023-03-29  8:44   ` [Buildroot] Indicating upstream status [was: [PATCH] package/bluez5_utils: Fix builds with musl-libc] Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-29  8:50     ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-03-29  9:06       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-29  9:28         ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot [this message]
2023-03-29 12:39           ` Florian Fainelli
2023-03-30  7:03             ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-30 12:21               ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2023-03-30 12:33                 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2023-03-31  7:28                   ` Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot

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