[AppStream] date_eol for <component>?

[Matthias Klumpp]

Am Fr., 4. Feb. 2022 um 16:05 Uhr schrieb Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What can we do in AppStream XML when the entire component is EOL? e.g.
> the developer or entire community has abandoned the project and we
> just want to indicate that in the metadata? I think flathub has a
> similar problem for runtimes, where the entire runtime is EOL, not
> just specific releases of it.
>
> My use case is that I want to convey that the device is no longer
> supported by the vendor. It's not really a per-release property, the
> situation applies no matter the release the user is running. I
> pondered something like <component date_eol="THE_ISO_DATE">
>
> Comments welcome, thanks,

Hey :-) Wouldn't the entire component be EOL automatically if its last
release went EOL and there is no more recent release to switch to?

Cheers,
    Matthias

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