Circular dependency due to backport from master

Adrian Schmutzler mail at adrianschmutzler.de
Tue Mar 2 12:13:41 GMT 2021


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [mailto:henrique at nic.br]
> Sent: Dienstag, 2. März 2021 12:55
> To: Adrian Schmutzler <mail at adrianschmutzler.de>
> Cc: 'OpenWrt Development List' <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>
> Subject: Re: Circular dependency due to backport from master
> 
> On 01/03/2021 18:35, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
> > Thanks for reporting, I was completely unaware.
> Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> > I've simply reverted my patch, since I don't think it's worth messing with
> the dependencies further given the age of 19.07, and 21.02 implements it
> properly.
> 
> I am not so sure it is not worth fixing it properly on 19.07, as that would ease
> backports of functionality from master and 21.02, as well as external
> functionality that has to work well on both.

Let me rephrase it:
I do not have the capacity to deal with this right now, compared to the priority of other tasks.
It would probably be not that dramatic to sort it out, though.

I do see the general improvement by having this "fixed" in 19.07, that's why I backported the patch initially.

Best

Adrian

> 
> I expect 19.07 to have a large install base for quite a while, since it will take
> time to 21.02 to stabilize due to the sheer number of changes, if not for any
> other reasons...
> 
> I see that still happening with 18.06...
> 
> --
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> www.nic.br
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