Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
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.
actually, the most effective approach would be to not include any
package you are not willing to support.
Does any major distribution put a nag screen on any 'unmaintained'
software they distribute?
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