[gentoo-dev] Re: [news-item] Paludis 0.24

[Duncan]

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> posted
20070505001746.5c8e2fb6@snowflake, excerpted below, on  Sat, 05 May 2007
00:17:46 +0100:

> On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500
> Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o> wrote:
>> Right.... which... seems to me something I would want to know *BEFORE*
>> I upgraded...
>
> No no, if you find out before you upgrade you preemptively change your
> config files and the old version breaks. If you find out after you
> upgrade you know why you're getting a load of warnings about '*' being
> deprecated.

I believe that last word, deprecated, is what many are missing.  If the 
files are upgraded to the new format previous to merging the new version, 
things will break.  If the new version is installed and the files remain 
in the old format, it will simply spit warnings but it'll still work.  
Thus, switching the format must be done after the upgrade, not before, 
and the news message suggesting it should be shown after the upgrade, not 
before, to prevent breakage while explaining warnings people will get 
until they update to current format.

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