The version 1 of libnl is long outdated and deprecated, with the
last release 1.1.4 from 2013.

Inside ptxdist, iw 3.14 was the last official user of LIBNL, all
other packages use LIBNL3. With the update to iw 5.3, this was
switched to LIBNL3, too.
All other packages already switched to libnl version 3 (ptxdist rule
"libnl3") for a long time, and so is the year-old recommendation of
libnl mainline.

Therefore move libnl to staging, and schedule for removal.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Pretzsch <[email protected]>
---
Please check, didn't verify, just changed tags by ptx example.

 rules/libnl.in | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rules/libnl.in b/rules/libnl.in
index 535af5cbe..0ea25f034 100644
--- a/rules/libnl.in
+++ b/rules/libnl.in
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-## SECTION=system_libraries
+## SECTION=staging
+## old section:
+### SECTION=system_libraries
 
 menuconfig LIBNL
        tristate
@@ -11,6 +13,10 @@ menuconfig LIBNL
          netlink messaging and various netlink family specific
          interfaces.
 
+         STAGING: remove in ptxdist-2020.10.0
+         Outdated version that is no longer maintained, and has been superseded
+         by libnl3.
+
 if LIBNL
 
 config LIBNL_MONITOR
-- 
2.19.1


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