[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/8] package/apr: Bump version to 1.5.1

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Oct 5 16:16:38 UTC 2014


Dear Yann E. MORIN,

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 16:42:48 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:

> > diff --git a/package/apr/apr-0001-cross-compile.patch b/package/apr/apr-0001-cross-compile.patch
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..6bd1194
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/package/apr/apr-0001-cross-compile.patch
> > @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> > +Fix cross-compilation
> > +
> > +Patch submitted upstream:
> > +https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57058
> 
> which is a bundle of upstream revisions:
>     http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1327907
>     http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1328390
>     http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1328714

I'm confused: if some pieces of code are already upstream and
backported, why do they need to be submitted upstream again?

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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