Bug 15758 - AUTHOR still defined in the datasmart store, even if announced deprecated
Summary: AUTHOR still defined in the datasmart store, even if announced deprecated
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: 5.2
Assignee: Richard Purdie
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Reported: 2025-02-16 10:20 UTC by kweihmann
Modified: 2025-03-24 09:52 UTC (History)
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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.