[meta-ti] [thud/master][RFC PATCH 3/3] ti-sgx-ddk-um: Drop omap5-sgx-ddk-um-linux package

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 7/24/19 4:08 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 03:30:57PM -0400, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 7/24/19 3:14 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 05:06:19PM -0400, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>>>> No one depends on this and it does not really get built,
>>>> remove this from PROVIDES.
>>>
>>> Bah, such a nice commit message. :)
>>>
>>> Seriously though, it is there for backward compatibility. That was the name 
>>> of this package few years ago. Sure, "it does not get built", but claiming 
>>> that "no one depends on this" is really a guess. There might be old recipes 
>>> out there depending on this package by its old name...
>>>
>>> Anyway, I don't mind dropping this backward compatibility, since it's been 
>>> several years already, but I would like to see a better commit message.
>>
>> How does backwards compat work with Yocto? Are you saying for out of
>> tree recipes? If so I'll change the wording to "No one *in-tree* depends
>> on this".
> 
> Yes, out-of-tree. Yocto Project embraces layered structure. There are tons of 
> layers with interdependencies. There could be outdated layers (potentially 
> customers) that use the old name. In order to drop backward compatibility, we 
> need to provide a clear message.
> 

Okay, that makes sense, will update the message with some more details.

Thanks,
Andrew