From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TggNQ-0007wg-Fz for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:40:55 +0100 Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Dec 2012 10:26:22 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,230,1355126400"; d="scan'208";a="258287141" Received: from unknown (HELO swold-linux.bigsur.com) ([10.255.13.117]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Dec 2012 10:26:22 -0800 Message-ID: <50C0E34E.8010108@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:26:22 -0800 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marko Lindqvist References: <1354740033-18500-1-git-send-email-cazfi74@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1354740033-18500-1-git-send-email-cazfi74@gmail.com> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: libpng-1.5.13 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:40:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/05/2012 12:40 PM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > > First preparatory patch makes it easier to add multiple major versions of > libpng. You may choose to commit this one only. > > Second patch adds 1.5.13 recipe. This produces library named libpng15, while > old 1.2.50 recipe produces libpng12. Some older programs (and their recipes) > may fail to find newer library. So far I'm aware of one such case in > meta-openembedded; libsdl-image-1.2.10 needs update. I've already submitted > patch for that one. > Overall, it's great to see the recipes updated, but we don't typically keep the older versions of recipes around. So if you want to preserve the older version, it should be moved meta-oe. The only case we keep older recipes is for License changes from GPLv2 -> GPLv3 where it makes sense. So, the request would be a v2 that also removes the 1.2.50 recipe. Thanks Sau! > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > >