From: Bjorn Ketelaars Subject: Re: Mark sysutils/bupstash as unmaintained? To: Laurence Tratt Cc: ports@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 18:50:28 +0200 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? 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.