[packagekit] Level of support

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 17:48 +0000 schrieb 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? 

Valid point.
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