From: Kirill A. Korinsky Subject: Re: Mark sysutils/bupstash as unmaintained? To: Bjorn Ketelaars Cc: Laurence Tratt , ports@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:59:47 +0200 On Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:50:28 +0200, Bjorn Ketelaars 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