From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:42:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] odroid-mali: mark package as BROKEN In-Reply-To: <20170305223726.GM3671@free.fr> (Yann E. MORIN's message of "Sun, 5 Mar 2017 23:37:27 +0100") References: <1488638059-6764-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20170305213723.021d4678@free-electrons.com> <20170305223726.GM3671@free.fr> Message-ID: <87a88xccuv.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN writes: >> I'm obviously late with commenting on this, but I think marking things as >> BROKEN is wrong. It bypasses the legacy mechanism so it disappears without >> notice. Also, BROKEN packages languish there for years without ever anyone >> taking a look. Sometimes things do get repaired, but re-adding the package is >> not much more complicated than >> >> So, I propose to remove all broken packages. > Agreed. >> [I have the feeling we discussed this kind of thing at some BR devel meeting at >> some point, but I can't find it.] > Yes we did. And IIRC we agreed to get rid of BROKEN altogether. I think you are mixing it up with BR2_DEPRECATED. With that said, if nobody cares about fixing the package, then I'm OK with removing it. Lets give it a bit of time and see what happens. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard