[OE-core] [PATCH 0/8] Deprecate package_regex.inc and split it into recipes

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 11/18/2015 05:38 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:

>> This patch series deprecates package_regex.inc and splits its contents into
>> respective recipes. This is done for same reasons as deprecating
>> upstream_tracking.inc: having upstream version check tweaks bundled into a
>> separate file makes the information prone to getting out of date.
>
> Looking at the patches the one thing that bothers me is the name of this
> variable, "REGEX". In the recipe context its rather ambiguous what it
> means.
>
> I'm wondering if we should take the opportunity to call it something
> like SRC_URI_REGEX or something?
>
> We either do it now or not at all...

I agree. I'll do the rename (from REGEX_URI to UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI and 
from REGEX to UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX) and resubmit.

This may break upstream versions checks for a while though, because 
there may be code accessing these variables that is not in oe-core tree.

Alex