[Buildroot] [PATCH] ola: mark as broken

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Apr 28 21:07:59 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:53:18 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  We kind of decided a few months ago not use BROKEN anymore, except if we expect
> that it will be repaired again very soon. The idea was that any BROKEN thing
> would be converted into removal with legacy handling at time of release. Do we
> expect the issue to be fixed by then?
> 
>  If not (probably not), I believe the proper approach is to remove, with legacy
> handling. If the issue gets fixed somewhere down the line, the removal can be
> reverted again.
> 
>  Make sure the help text of the legacy symbol clearly describes the problem, so
> that anyone who actually needs the package can try to fix it.

I think we can leave this as BROKEN, and shortly before the release
really remove it if upstream has not fixed it.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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