[PATCH] usbutils: remove
Paul Spooren
mail at aparcar.org
Thu Dec 31 14:22:35 EST 2020
On Do, Dez 31, 2020 at 11:47, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> writes:
>> On Mi, Dez 30, 2020 at 10:03, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>>> Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I have git send-email preset to send stuff to this email
>>>> address. I
>>>> usually don't CC anyone.
>>> I don't understand what "maintainer" means in an OpenWrt context...
>>
>> My understanding is that a maintainer is a reasonable active and
>> reliable person which either updates specific packages to newer
>> versions or reviews other person version bumps (for those packages),
>
> I believe that is an impossible task unless you are copied on patches.
>
>>> Anyway, do you plan to do something about usbreset as well, or will
>>> that
>>> be left as a redundant package?
>>
>> Is usbutils redundant to usbreset? If so, let's remove the latter
>> and
>> move the former.
>
> I pushed the OpenWrt usbreset implementation into (upstream) usbutils
> a
> long time ago, because it was generally useful regardless of distro.
> So
> usbutils newer than v008 has the OpenWrt version of usbreset.
At this point OpenWrt comes with usbutils v007. I don't want to drop
any development tools during the holidays but ideally move & upgrade
usbutils within the next week and remove usbreset entirely.
Paul
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