[gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout 2 stabilisation todo

[Duncan]

Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> posted
20090522121717.1904971d@g.o, excerpted below, on  Fri, 22 May 2009
12:17:17 +0200:

> I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 and
> OpenRC can go stable.  Up to now I have:
>
> * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module
> * a newer splashutils stable
> * documentation updates (http://bugs.gentoo.org/213988, thanks Jeremy)
>
> What else?  As some of you might foresee, this can be as hard as a major
> GCC stabilisation, so it must be well-planned and organised.

What about the "deprecated" reliance on the old-style addons code as used 
by at least the mdraid (mdadm package) and lvm (lvm2 package) services?  
(I'd quote except the messages don't appear to be logged so I can't get 
'em without rebooting.)

I've not filed a bug as I'm sure the maintainers can read as well as I 
can, but if we're talking about stabilizing openrc, getting them in shape 
and stable without dependence on already deprecated functionality so 
stable users never see that warning would be nice.  Such warnings tend to 
be (generally unnecessarily) alarming to normal users, especially when a 
brand spanking new upgrade is already emitting "deprecated" warnings.

Or should I file the bugs?  It seems no one else has and maybe the 
maintainers don't have the config for what they're maintaining, or 
otherwise don't see the warnings.

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