[Buildroot] [PATCH] odroid-mali: mark package as BROKEN
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Mar 5 22:37:27 UTC 2017
Arnout, All,
On 2017-03-05 23:33 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 05-03-17 21:37, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 15:34:19 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >> The version of the khrplatform.h header bundled with odroid-mali has a
> >> definition of the khronos_intptr_t and khronos_ssize_t that doesn't
> >> match the official Khronos registry headers or the Mesa3D headers. Due
> >> to this, it causes conflicts with some packages that redefines those
> >> types (with the correct definitions), such as libepoxy.
> >>
> >> Issue reported upstream at: https://github.com/mdrjr/c2_mali/issues/1
> >>
> >> Since nobody bothered fixing the issue even though it has been happening
> >> since July 2016 (first build failure at
> >> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/ed8d562ae5fdb472a83f9a07b2f755c80c972c34/),
> >> let's mark this package as BROKEN.
> >>
> >> Fixes:
> >>
> >> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/ca48bb6291ca16e410edb83b5cdeb24847b6eaee/
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> >> ---
> >> package/odroid-mali/Config.in | 10 ++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > Applied to master, thanks.
>
> I'm obviously late with commenting on this, but I think marking things as
> BROKEN is wrong. It bypasses the legacy mechanism so it disappears without
> notice. Also, BROKEN packages languish there for years without ever anyone
> taking a look. Sometimes things do get repaired, but re-adding the package is
> not much more complicated than
>
> So, I propose to remove all broken packages.
Agreed.
> [I have the feeling we discussed this kind of thing at some BR devel meeting at
> some point, but I can't find it.]
Yes we did. And IIRC we agreed to get rid of BROKEN altogether.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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