[OE-core] worth adding a "git"-versioned of i2c-tools to oe-core?

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 13:41 +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 07/31/2017 01:41 PM, rpjday at crashcourse.ca wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >    given that some significant changes have been made to i2c-tools
> > since
> > version 3.1.2, is it worth adding a git-versioned recipe of that
> > to 
> > oe-core,
> > and using DEFAULT_PREFERENCE to force people to select it if they
> > want it?
> > in particular, the code base has been restructured, and a new
> > utility,
> > "i2ctransfer", has been added.
> It's better to ask the upstream to make a new release.
> 
> We've had dual git/release recipes in the past, and they were all an 
> utter failure. In the sense, that only one version of the recipe was 
> maintained, and the other was completely neglected.

Going forward we may accept patches using this instead:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/classes/devupstream.bbclass

Cheers,

Richard