Re: orphaned files

[Vitus Jensen <vjensen@gmx.de>]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:

> 2010/8/20 Vitus Jensen <vjensen@gmx.de>:
>>
>>> I thought I made a mistake in the script, but after verification I have
>>> not.
>>> The recipes you mention have been removed a few days ago
>>>
>>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=e5287904a9dddc8ddc0f486d8526bc8cfda427b7
>>
>> But I made a mistake when I used git fetch and forgot the merge :-( Sorry to
>> have caused noice.
>>
>>> It there any particular reason why you want to have both the 1.8 and
>>> 1.9 versions in the archive?
>>> If so, we should revert the commit above (and then of course the patch
>>> file itself should not be removed either.
>>
>> Well, htmldoc_1.9.x-r1571.bb fetches an older "developer snapshot" as
>> www.htmldoc.org/ calls it.  The download link on that page offers 1.8.27 as
>> the official version.  1.8.28 is in the work.  In my opinion one should
>> always offer to build the official version, not some revision from an
>> arbitrary point of time.
>>
>> Having said this 1.9.x-r1571 was added because it contains a feature which
>> one customer required and wasn't in the official release from that time. I
>> don't know whether someone at all is using that recipe now.  So it's only
>> the official vs. developer version thingy.
>
> Vitus as the owner/maintainer of the recipe do you want me to reinstate 1.8.28 ?

Yes, please do so.

Afterwards I will move 1.8 and 1.9 to the current versions.

Vitus

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