Re: [PATCH v4] Add new recipe for squashfs-tools-ng

Luca Bocassi
2020-10-27T10:59:57Z

On Tue, 2020-10-27 at 10:37 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 13:09 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 10:29 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 10:05 +0000, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> > > >
> > > > The main difference with squashfs-tools is the availability
> > > > of a shared library and a programmatic interface, rather
> > > > than just command-line tools.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > v2: added MIT, Zlib and BSD-2-Clause to LICENSE
> > > > v3: fixed CPL-3.0+ tag, removed GPL2 from checksum (not used),
> > > > changed
> > > > recipe to be versioned, use bb.utils.filter in PACKAGE_CONFIG
> > > > v4: disable zstd support by default, dependency not available in
> > > > oe-
> > > > core
> > >
> > > Sorry, there is one other issue. There is no maintainers entry for
> > > this
> > > recipe (see meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc) which would
> > > cause
> > > oe-selftest to fail. Can you add an maintainers entry please?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Richard
> >
> > Ok - who should be listed as maintainer?
>
> The person who is going to look after this recipe in OE-Core. Each
> recipe needs to have a maintainer listed, someone who is prepared to
> get the upgrade helper emails, handle upgrades, help with security
> issues, bugs related to the recipe and so on.
>
> If we don't have anyone willing to maintain it, I'd argue its not
> important enough to have in OE-Core...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard

Ok, I'll move to meta-openembedded then.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi