[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] python-xlib: new package

[Joseph Kogut]

Hi Yegor,

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Yegor Yefremov
<yegorslists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello Joseph,
>
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Joseph Kogut <joseph.kogut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 6:13 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
>> <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This personal message and changelog should have gone...
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joseph Kogut <joseph.kogut at gmail.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> ... here, so that Git doesn't include it as part of the commit log.
>>> Indeed, we don't need to keep such details in the Git history (but they
>>> are very useful to have during the patch review process).
>>>
>>>> +PYTHON_XLIB_VERSION = 0.21
>>>> +PYTHON_XLIB_SOURCE = python-xlib-$(PYTHON_XLIB_VERSION).tar.bz2
>>>> +PYTHON_XLIB_SITE = https://pypi.python.org/packages/eb/de/b0eaaea7b8512dc41504db071824eef30293ff55c58d83081ebaebe85a38
>>>> +PYTHON_XLIB_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
>>>> +PYTHON_XLIB_LICENSE = LGPL-2.0+
>>>
>>> The license is in fact LGPL-2.1+, so I've fixed that and applied your
>>> patch to the master branch.
>>
>> Ah, thanks for the fixup. I'll keep that in mind next time.
>>
>>> Thanks for your contribution!
>>
>> Thanks for all your support!
>
> Btw. have you ever tried utils/scanpypi (see "17.8.3. Generating a
> python-package from a PyPI repository" for the reference)?
>
> Yegor

I have, but I've had issues with using the tool for certain packages.
Practically speaking the correct course of action would probably be
for me to submit patches to improve the tool, rather than not use it.
Clearly, I made some mistakes with this submission as a result.