Re: [gentoo-council] Question I had while writing my devmanual patch about eclasses

[Petteri Räty]

Thomas Anderson wrote:
> While writing the devmanual patch that I agreed to write for removal of
> eclasses I came across the very vague definition of "deprecating"
> eclasses before removal. Ulrich(last name ommitted to avoid stabbing ;-) )
> and we came up with the following for the process of deprecating an
> eclass:
>
> a. make sure nothing in the tree uses it any more
> b. announce deprecation on -dev

-dev-announce

> c. put a warning in pkg_setup

Could make use of what debug.eclass does now.


Regards,
Petteri