Bug 5406

Summary: do_split_packages should set SUMMARY instead of DESCRIPTION
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Component: coreAssignee: Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Low CC: jessica.zhang, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, srifenbark
Version: 1.6   
Target Milestone: 1.6   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: 20 March 2014: Doc flag reset
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: Done (doc changes complete)

Description Paul Eggleton 2013-10-29 11:31:34 UTC
do_split_packages() sets DESCRIPTION, but in usage these are almost always short one-line descriptions, so we should be setting SUMMARY instead. At the moment SUMMARY for packages generated by do_split_packages() ends up with the default value i.e. "${PN} version ${PV}-${PR}" which isn't particularly useful.
Comment 2 Scott Rifenbark 2014-03-20 12:18:57 UTC
Hi, 

See http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#making-sure-the-packaging-is-done for the fix.  I added a short description to the list of parameters for the do_split_packages.  The description matches what Paul used for the patch.

I am marking the documentation flag "Done". 

Scott