Bug 15758

Summary: AUTHOR still defined in the datasmart store, even if announced deprecated
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: kweihmann
Component: coreAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, randy.macleod, ross.burton
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 5.2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Yes (doc changes required)

Description kweihmann 2025-02-16 10:20:24 UTC
Migration guide to 4.3 states that AUTHOR variable has been removed.
But bitbake-getvar -f doc --value AUTHOR
still returns information about it.

> Email address used to contact the original author(s) in order to send patches and forward bugs.

Also the variable is not part of BB_RENAMED_VARIABLES, so no warning is issued, when still being used.
Comment 1 Randy MacLeod 2025-02-20 15:52:31 UTC
We need to track down if there are still such references.
there is a doc string in at least one place.
Comment 2 Ross Burton 2025-02-20 15:56:07 UTC
Trivial patch, sent.