Re: [docs] [PATCH v2] dev-manual: mention that "bmap-tools" is transitional package

Hi Robert,

On 6/11/26 5:34 PM, Robert P. J. Day via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> 
> For modern Debian and Ubuntu releases, mention that the "bmap-tools"
> package is transitional to the newer "bmaptool" package.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
> 
> ---
> 
>    sorry about the earlier typo in the subject line
> 
> diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/bmaptool.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/bmaptool.rst
> index 87162a49c..1e5ad2bba 100644
> --- a/documentation/dev-manual/bmaptool.rst
> +++ b/documentation/dev-manual/bmaptool.rst
> @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ system image files much faster.
> 
>            $ bitbake bmaptool-native -caddto_recipe_sysroot
> 
> +   -  Finally, in modern Ubuntu and Debian releases, the ``bmap-tools``
> +      package is a transitional package; it exists solely to ensure
> +      backward compatibility and smooth upgrades from older installations.
> +      You can safely remove it and install the active package, ``bmaptool``,
> +      which contains the actual utilities for flashing block images.
> +

Just list this in the first bullet point which is related to Ubuntu and 
Debian distributions?

I could see switching the default package to install from bmap-tools to 
bmaptool and add a note (Sphinx note) that on older releases, it was 
named bmap-tools so install that package instead.

Note that Fedora 43+ has bmap-tools, and Leap 16+ 
python3-bmap-tools/python3-bmaptools.

Cheers,
Quentin