I have a recipes that uses a local file whose path contains a '_', which was converted to a ':'. This broke the recipe and a warning was printed saying that the file could not be fetched. I ignored the warning at first. During the first build everything seems to be fine, but on the second build a cache error occurs, which can only be fixed by deleting the tmp directory. Here is the recipes that broke using the script: https://pastebin.com/dwdig7wn
Could you send a patch to the list? This is meant as an aid to the transition so it's not expected to be perfect.
I don't think that I will find the time any time soon. It would probably be better that the author of the script makes some changes. By looking at the script, I can see that the error occurred because there is an 'aarch64' sub-string included in the SRC_URI of this package. I think it would be best to somehow exclude strings in quotes from the conversion, so that only variable names, but not the values themselves are converted.
Thanks for the explanation. For now this is in the backlog since the dev team is stretched very thin.
Build move to 5.0 -- ../Randy
Bulk move of 5.0 medium importance issues to 5.99. Move to 5.1 if you want to actively work on an issue.
Move to 5.99 since no one is actively working on this issue. Move to 5.x if you start on a task, please.
At this point most conversions have been done and we're unlikely to make further changes to the script.