Am Mittwoch, den 07.06.2006, 10:03 +0200 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz: > OpenEmbedded is used to build OpenZaurus, Familiar, Angstrom distros. Each > of them provide OPIE. OPIE users often request software which is dead > upstream, not maintained by anyone but useful for them (less or more). > The question which I have is: How to mark such stuff? > > For example: I can add kismet-qte 2.0.0 into OE (got it built) but last > version was in 2003 year, it has no activity since then. I do not plan to > support it in any other way then "ok - here it is, use it - I will not > fix this tool". > > I was thinking about MAINTAINER="unmaintained", other choice was > SECTION="obsolete/unmaintained". > > What do you think about it?
I doubt whether any of these approaches will work. It may be good for your conscience to be able to say "Look at section, it's clearly flagged as unmaintained", but it won't have much impact on people that want to bug you about it. MAINTAINER = "unmaintained" is not necessary, since the default MAINTAINER set in bitbake.conf is more or less exactly that. Fiddling with SECTION doesn't sound appealing to me either, after all, even if it's unmaintained it's still SECTION=opie/application. The most effective approach may be to patch the application in question opening a QMessageBox( "This application is unmaintained upstream. Please refrain from bugging your friendly distribution maintainer") every time the application starts. -- Regards, Mickey. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Inf. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oe mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/oe
