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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Anderson<gentoofan23@g.o> wrote: |
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> While writing the devmanual patch that I agreed to write for removal of |
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> eclasses I came across the very vague definition of "deprecating" |
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> eclasses before removal. Ulrich(last name ommitted to avoid stabbing ;-) ) |
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> and we came up with the following for the process of deprecating an |
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> eclass: |
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> a. make sure nothing in the tree uses it any more |
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> b. announce deprecation on -dev |
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> c. put a warning in pkg_setup |
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> d. add a line containing exactly "# @DEAD" for vapier's man pages |
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> Please vote so we don't have to go over this in a meeting. I personally |
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> am fine with it, but my vote matters little. |
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> Thomas Anderson |
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> Gentoo Developer |
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> Areas of responsibility: |
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> AMD64, Secretary to the Gentoo Council |
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Looks good from here. ++ |
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Doug Goldstein |