[Buildroot] [PATCH] odroid-mali: mark package as BROKEN

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Mar 7 15:42:32 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 >> 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.

I think you are mixing it up with BR2_DEPRECATED.

With that said, if nobody cares about fixing the package, then I'm OK
with removing it. Lets give it a bit of time and see what happens.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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