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

[Phillip Lougher]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:32 AM, Syrone Wong <wong.syrone at gmail.com> wrote:
> You'd better mention the move to GitHub on the official webpage:
> http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
>

That GitHub repo is currently the most uptodate repository because
people have made pull requests on that repository.  It was initially
only created as a backup for the time that kernel.org was unavailable.

It is not the official repository, which is on kernel.org, but funnily
enough I can't merge GitHub requests to that automatically.  That has
to be done manually.

As everyone insists on using the GitHub repo it hasn't been on my priority list.

Phillip



>
> 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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