[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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