-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/07/2011 12:09 ??, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 8.7.2011 11.55, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Michał Górny wrote: >> >>>>> In [1] it is noted that the 'useq' and 'hasq' functions are >>>>> "Deprecated". If this is the case, do we think it would be >>>>> pertinent to have a repoman warning reminding people to switch to >>>>> 'use' and 'has' respectively? >>>> >>>> Sounds good. One thing we could consider in future EAPIs is starting >>>> to make deprecated functions die and then remove in the one after. >> >> And what would be the advantage of removing these functions? They have >> zero maintenance cost (as already stated previously, see below). >> > > Making sure people don't use them and through that removing the need to > know what the two functions do from new people. > > Regards, > Petteri > > > I believe that make them die wont improve anything but instead this will bring more frustration to our users. If you make them die you transfer the problem to the users, cause you make them file bugs and wait for slacking maintainers to fix the packages. I would say to keep the warning as it and hope that maintainers will actually step up and update their packages.
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