[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] linuxconsoletools: new package
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Jun 20 13:19:36 UTC 2017
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
>> What is the way forward? Drop the old package and add Config.in.legacy
>> handling for the old symbols?
> Thanks for pointing out, I didn't notice there was an overlap with our
> input-tools package. Our input-tools package references
> http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ as the upstream URL, which no
> longer exists, and fetches a Debian package from 2010 called joystick.
> All of this is a pretty confusing:
> Buildroot package name != upstream URL project != Debian package name
> Since linuxconsoletools provides the three utilities provided by
> input-tools, has a name matching the upstream project, and uses a more
> recent version, I would suggest to drop input-tools indeed, and add a
> Config.in.legacy option that automatically enables linuxconsoletools.
Yes, I agree - The input-tools package is very old and hasn't been
updated in close to 10 years.
Will you send a patch to add the legacy handling or should I?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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