Re: [PATCH 00/70] Proposed changes for fido

[Joshua Lock <joshua.lock@collabora.co.uk>]

Hi Bryan,

On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 12:40 +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > Bryan Evenson (1):
> >   util-linux: Add lastb to alternatives
> 
> There is a refined version of this patch available that was 
> submitted to the mailing list here: 
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015
> -April/104132.html.  It uses PACKAGECONFIG to remove last, lastb and 
> the man pages for last and lastb from the util-linux build if 'last' 
> is not in PACKAGECONFIG.  It also adds 'last' to PACKAGECONFIG by 
> default which mimics previous behavior.  I'm still a little unclear 
> on the patch approval process, so I assume the updated patch would 
> need to be accepted into master before being backported into fido?

Unless the patch is specific to the stable branch we only pull in
changes into a stable branch once they have been reviewed and accepted
into the master branch.

Is this change valuable without the refined patch? Or should I pull it
until I can merge both?

Thanks,

Joshua