[LEDE-DEV] [RFC PATCH] tools/squashfs: change to upstream and update to new version 5.0-rc1

[Syrone Wong]

You'd better mention the move to GitHub on the official webpage:
http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/


Best Regards,
Syrone Wong


On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Phillip Lougher
<phillip.lougher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/26/2017 06:13 PM, Alexander Couzens wrote:
>> squashfs is quite long unmaintained. All patches from major
>> distributions are integrated.
>
> As the maintainer and author of Squashfs that is completely untrue and
> grossly offensive.
>
> Many of those patch-sets are merged (where I have received merge
> requests) into this repository.
>
> https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools
>
> Others I don't recognise which means they've never been submitted to
> me. Distributions are entirely entitled to keep local patches which
> they've never submitted to upstream.
>
> Some others including portability patches have been rejected by me.
>
> In both cases their lack of integration does not mean the project is
> not maintained.
>
> Do not make untrue claims.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dr. Phillip Lougher
> Author and Maintainer of Squashfs.
>
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