On Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:50:28 +0200,
Bjorn Ketelaars <bket@openbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed 01/04/2026 16:59, Laurence Tratt wrote:
> > I've been using bupstash for several years, and while it's fairly good,
> > it's now very clearly unmaintained [1]. For such a critical piece of
> > software, especially one that has not yet made it to a 1.0 release (and
> > that has some of the rough edges that implies), that worries me.
> > Personally I will soon be looking at alternatives.
> > 
> > To avoid other people using this, I wonder if we could/should somehow mark
> > bupstash as "unmaintained" to nudge people not to start using it (and, if
> > they are using it, to consider whether they need to move)?
> > 
> > 
> > Laurie
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/andrewchambers/bupstash
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> OK?
>

Not sure, but I think update quirks may be a good idea as well

> 
> diff --git Makefile Makefile
> index 61274fa214d..38a45f2c3e2 100644
> --- Makefile
> +++ Makefile
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ COMMENT =		encrypted and deduplicated backup tool
>  V =			0.12.0
>  DISTNAME =		bupstash-v${V}
>  PKGNAME =		bupstash-${V}pl1
> +REVISION =		0
>  
>  CATEGORIES =		sysutils
>  
> diff --git pkg/DESCR pkg/DESCR
> index b84b34da7eb..4a140a649f0 100644
> --- pkg/DESCR
> +++ pkg/DESCR
> @@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ Some notable features of bupstash include:
>  
>  bupstash is beta software, while all efforts are made to keep bupstash bug
>  free, we currently recommend using bupstash for making REDUNDANT backups where
> -failure can be tolerated.
> +failure can be tolerated; furthermore, users should be aware that the tool is
> +unmaintained upstream and may be removed in the future.
> 

-- 
wbr, Kirill