[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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