[packagekit] Level of support

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:20 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> We now have got a new filter which allows to search for supported packages. But there is still an open question:
> 
> > Is supported a boolean? If so we can add it to GetDescription trivially.
> 
> In Ubuntu it can currently have three values: supported 3 years,
> supported 5 years, unsupported.

Sure, but when you are looking at a package you're not thinking "5
years, it's been 4 and a half years since the release day so it must be
still supported" - you just want to see a "supported" graphic telling
you if it's still valid or not.

Surely the backend should be doing something like:

bool supported = (($current_date - $release_date) - $years_supported < 0)

Then you can display a trivial "supported" graphic in the package search
and update tool. Is this not better information to the user? 

Richard.