Brokenness of the OpenWrt "packages" repo

[Daniel Golle]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 03:28:22PM +0200, Enrico Mioso wrote:
> ... 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.

ModemManager is not the only way to use 4G/5G modems. You can use
umbim or uqmi for most tasks. Both projects are straight forward, well
documented code, easy to extend in case you miss anything.
Depending on half of the Freedesktop universe in order to initialize
a network interface or receive an SMS in a very complicated way doesn't
feel justified to me.


> 
> 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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