[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH] package/google-material-design-icons: drop package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:52:24 -0400
James Knight <james.d.knight at live.com> wrote:

> Newer versions of Google's Material Design icon package are structured
> differently, making a version bump no so trivial. While work can be done
> to support this, considering this package is using v2.2.3 and the most
> recent version is v4.0, it is most likely that this package is not being
> used. Environments which desire Material icons/fonts/etc. will most
> likely achieve better results be managing their own custom package to
> have an explicit selection/filter of design styles (e.g. standard,
> Android, etc.), variants (basic, outlined, rounds, etc.), display
> resolutions and scale selection desired.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.d.knight at live.com>
> ---
> This package (v2.2.3) was added sometime ago, to be a helpful for board
> builds that could easily install Material icons under `/usr/share` to
> be used by applications/web services (if configured for it). The
> original (external) project this was designed for was prototype-only,
> and is no longer used. I'm not sure that there is any value into
> maintaining this package in Buildroot since I suspect no other projects
> use it (mainly since it's two major releases behind and no one has
> requested a newer version).

Nobody complained, you originally contributed this package and no
longer willing to maintain it, so fair enough, patch applied to next. I
dropped the entry in DEVELOPERS and added the entry to Config.in.legacy.

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
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