Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] libmd: move to staging (license issues and no more users inside ptxdist)

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:09:04PM +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote:
> libmd provides MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA-1 and RIPEMD-160 message digest algorithms.
> 
> Each of the respective implementations includes different license statements,
> with wrappers under beer-ware license.
> None of them is specified or extracted in the ptxdist rule.
> In addition, to handle esp. the RSA license on MD2 and MD4, some build config
> parameters should be introduced to be able to remove them.
> 
> In ptxdist, ntp was the only direct user of libmd, but provides its internal
> MD5 implementation by now. This one is used if no libmd or similar is found.
> From an incomplete check, libarchive can also make use of libmd, but prefers
> OpenSSL/libcrypto, as being more complete.
> 
> Last, package seems to be not updated since 2009.
> 
> So instead of fixing all of the above, move to staging, so it can be removed
> some day, unless somebody needs it and picks up above tasks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Pretzsch <apr@cn-eng.de>

When a package is moved to staging we usually add a comment to the help
text, when the package can be removed and a short note why the package was
moved to staging. The first part is important, so that I can grep for it to
see which packages I should remove. The second is only really important as
a hint in case someone wants to resurrect the package, so not really
important here.

Michael

> ---
>  rules/libmd.in | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rules/libmd.in b/rules/libmd.in
> index 7e8e0e1..6b19ad8 100644
> --- a/rules/libmd.in
> +++ b/rules/libmd.in
> @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
> -## SECTION=system_libraries
> +## SECTION=staging
> +## old section:
> +### SECTION=system_libraries
>  menuconfig LIBMD
>  	tristate
>  	prompt "libmd                         "
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 
> 
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