Brokenness of the OpenWrt "packages" repo

[Enrico Mioso]

... I know you won't like this. But in the end, I guess D-Bus, glib2 and in the end all of MM dependencies will have to be incorporated in the core.

A stac, of big big software, I know. But supporting 4G/5G in the end will required that.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, Bjørn Mork wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 07:51:51
> From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no>
> To: Etienne Champetier <champetier.etienne at gmail.com>
> Cc: Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>,
>     OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org>
> Subject: Re: Brokenness of the OpenWrt "packages" repo
> 
> Etienne Champetier <champetier.etienne at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Are you trying at the same time to complain about not run-tested
>> updates and possibly having packages not up to date ?
>
> No.  The package was fine before the version was changed.  In fact, it
> was in much better shape before it was changed to a development version
> by the very same non-maintainer.
>
> If you don't care enough to even install the package, then please don't
> touch the package.
>
>> I would personally mark it as broken or remove it instead of making it
>> work again, but it means removing some other packages.
>
> I'd be all for that, if you apply that rule to all the unmaintained
> packages in the repo.  It's a much better solution than having the repo
> full of arbitrary untested changes to unmaintained packages.
>
> Wrt dbus I'm pretty sure it would provoke an adoption.  There are
> multiple packages depending on it, and as the immediate reports tell
> you:  This particualr umaintained package is in active use.
>
>
>
> Bjørn
>
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