On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 01:09 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:<br />
<blockquote>Some of our users have complained, yes. That isn't a conscious decision on&nbsp;<br />"our" part, just a rather unfortunate and unplanned consequence of the fact<br />we're pretty strict about declaring where we get our sources.<br /><br />The advice to anyone hitting this issue is to add in the correct branch<br />to the SRC_URI. It is simple and easy to do, can be in bbappends <br />or even changed via anonymous python and similar if necessary. We've already<br />found the issue with several core recipes, we simply updated them and most&nbsp;<br />users didn't notice. I would even likely take that kind of change into older<br />otherwise unmaintained branches and I think I did so in at least one case in<br />the past.<br /><br />There is no intent to peanlize or complain, my intent is just to deal with<br />it like any other upstream source change, these things happen all the time.&nbsp;<br />I am stating that here for any other maintainers to read and suggest they&nbsp;<br />follow oe-core's lead.</blockquote>
Whoops, just saw this.&nbsp; Thanks for the position statement, Richard; very much appreciated.<br /><br />Best,<br />--Benjamin Gilbert