Added BUILD_UNTIL mechanism to config

README.md

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Those are the steps done by the helpers:
 * `REPOKEY`: An additional GPG key to import for the helper. Mostly only used in conjunction with `EXTERNAL`.
 * `BACKPORT(S)`: Must be set to `true` if the package is a backport.
 * `QUILT`: If `skip`, avoids patches to be automatically applied. Only set this variables if you know what you are doing.
+* `BUILD_UNTIL`: build this helper if the Trisquel REVISION number (e.g. Trisquel 10.0) is <= this number. To be used when we know that the helper will not be needed at a certain future release.
 
 ## Recommendations
 

helpers/config

@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ MIRROR=http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
 LOCALMIRROR=https://archive.trisquel.org/trisquel
 LOCAL_APT=`mktemp -d` 
 
+if [ -n "$BUILD_UNTIL" ] && (( $(echo "$BUILD_UNTIL $REVISION" | awk '{print ($1 > $2)}') )); then
+    echo "Skipping build of helper with BUILD_UNTIL=$BUILD_UNTIL > REVISION=$REVISION"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
 export RPL="$PWD/DATA/rpl"
 rpl(){
 $RPL "$@"

helpers/make-mate-calc

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #
 
 VERSION=0
+BUILD_UNTIL=10.0
 
 . ./config