From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 23:40:52 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] odroid-mali: mark package as BROKEN In-Reply-To: References: <1488638059-6764-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <20170305213723.021d4678@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20170305234052.2515068d@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sun, 5 Mar 2017 23:33:56 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > 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. > > [I have the feeling we discussed this kind of thing at some BR devel meeting at > some point, but I can't find it.] True. But for this one case, the developer contributing the package is still active, submitting patches for other things from time to time. So I was hoping that a stronger hint at "please fix your packages otherwise they'll get removed" was in order. Let's say that we'll remove this package before the 2017.05 release if nobody unbreaks it? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com