[Vmware-package-maintainers] unsupported packages

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
I just added vmware-package to the package-tags file to 
reflect that we can't provide security support for this 
package (Cced maintainers to inform them of this).

The vmware-package comes with a script that uses an upstream 
tarball to create .deb files. The versions and md5sums of 
the tarballs are hardcoded in the script and the user needs 
to download the tarball himself. As far as I see this is 
outdated and won't even work currently.

But we somehow need to reflect that we can't support this 
package in the tracker data. So far issues regarding vmware 
got a fix status or an NFU but in my opinion none of this is 
really appropriate.

For stable there is no support anyway but for unstable we 
traditionally supported packages in case we have some spare 
time and the issue is easy fixable.

So I think we need to make a decision at this point to 
either don't support contrib/non-free completely and mark 
these issues as NFU or we need to introduce a tag for 
unsupported packages (Florian what do you think?).

Opinions?

Kind regards
Nico
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