[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] package: remove 'v' prefix from github-fetched packages

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:33:44 +0200
Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:

> On 20/06/2019 08:31, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:50:01 +0200
> > Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:  
> [snip]
> >>  It would also be nice if we had some formal way of checking that new packages
> >> do this correctly. Actually, it would be good if pkg-stats could generate a
> >> report in a human-readable format so it could be used as part of the review flow
> >> to check if the mapping with release-monitoring is OK (plus all the other things
> >> pkg-stats evaluates).  
> > 
> > Hm, yes, could be an interesting idea. Just a new pkg-stats option ?  
> 
>  Actually, since pkg-stats is in support/scripts it's currently not supposed to
> be user-visible. So I'd rather turn it around: make the text output to stdout
> the default, and add an option to generate HTML.

While I agree, I don't understand the relationship with pkg-stats being
in support/scripts. Are you saying that we should then add a "make
<pkg>-check-upstream-version" target that would call pkg-stats with the
right options ?

I'm a bit confused here.

Thomas
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