[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] linuxconsoletools: new package
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jun 20 13:35:44 UTC 2017
Hello,
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:19:36 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >> 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?
I wasn't planning on sending such a patch, so feel free to do it :)
Thomas
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