OpenWRT upstreaming status

[vidplace7]

Upstreaming Status

Status of efforts to upstream meshtasticd, python-meshtastic, and their dependencies into openwrt/packages.

For the most up to date status see vidplace7's openwrt/packages PRs.

We plan to target master, and openwrt-24.10.

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📥 PR Submitted

✅ PR Merged

🕰️ Waiting for another PR

🔙 Backport required (cannot cherry-pick)

📑 To-do (need to submit)

❌ Won't do

meshtasticd

New Packages

Package	master	Notes
libyder	✅	Dep for meshtasticd
meshtasticd	📑
meshtasticd-web	📑
python-platformio	✅	Host-Dep for building meshtasticd
python-pyelftools	✅	Dep for python-platformio
python-tabulate	✅	Dep for python-platformio; also used in python-meshtastic

Modified Packages

Package	master	openwrt-24.10	openwrt-23.05	Notes
liborcania	✅	✅	✅	Install library on target
libulfius	✅	✅	✅	Install library on target
python-certifi	✅	✅	🔙❌	Add hostbuild (for python-requests)
python-chardet	✅	✅	🔙❌	Add hostbuild (for python-requests)
python-click	✅	✅	✅	Add hostbuild (for python-platformio)
python-idna	✅	✅	🔙❌	Add hostbuild (for python-requests)
python-pyserial	✅	✅	📥	Add hostbuild (for python-platformio)
python-requests	✅	✅	🔙❌	Add hostbuild (for python-platformio)
python-urllib3	✅	✅	✅	Add hostbuild (for python-requests)

python-meshtastic

python-meshtastic requires modern protobuf which cannot be cleanly backported to 24.10/older (thanks abseil...).
We are only targeting master (SNAPSHOT) for this package and it's deps.

New Packages

Package	master	Notes
abseil-cpp	✅	Dep for updating protobuf
python-meshtastic	🕰️
python-protobuf	📑 🕰️	Awaiting protobuf update.
python-pypubsub	✅	Dep for python-meshtastic

Modified Packages

Package	master	Notes
protobuf	📥	Depends on abseil-cpp