[PATCH] comgt: Move to community packages repo

[Alberto Bursi]

On 28/06/21 22:51, Lech Perczak wrote:
> W dniu 2021-06-28 o 21:55, Paul Spooren pisze:
>>
>> On 6/28/21 9:53 AM, John Crispin wrote:
>>>
>>> On 28.06.21 21:14, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>>> I'm in favor of this too but if it's a core feature (i.e. SIM card 
>>>> support) we should provide the package by default to, not? 
>>>
>>> this should be explained in the wiki,
>> Agree, APU boards etc also need some extra packages to support SDcards 
>> and things. Let's do this.
>>>
>>>     John
>>>
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> 
> OTOH, this differs a bit from such packages, by being needed to connect 
> to WAN on such devices. This is the same way as uqmi does on some - 
> removing it would require other Internet connection to bootstrap its 
> installation.
> 


No they all have ethernet ports afaik, and that's "good enough" to allow 
the move.

The important thing to keep in mind here is this is a tradeoff. The 
package is being moved over to let someone maintain it properly, while 
nobody reviewed or merged relatively simple bug fixing patches for a 
year now.

I would say that getting an active maintainer is worth more than not 
requiring to connect to the internet through another device first to 
install packages.

-Alberto