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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:00:28
Message-Id: 20160209110007.e7b59104048cd507ccb5e0e3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 10:00:40 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:38:45 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
3 >
4 > > > It's nothing to worry about, deprecated only mean is will be broken at
5 > > > some time in the future, it still works for now. IMO ebuild QA
6 > > > messages like this should not be shown to users.
7 > >
8 > > The idea is that users should ping developers with appropriate bug
9 > > reports.
10 >
11 > Instead, they ask in here or on the forums. Shouldn't the devs see such
12 > messages anyway and already be aware of the need to update the ebuild?
13
14 They see them, but only when they build packages, e.g. when making
15 version bump. Eclass may become deprecated after last update of a
16 package, in such case devs may not see such warning because they
17 have no need to rebuild the package.
18
19 Best regards,
20 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers using deprecated... Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>