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Date:      Sun, 25 Aug 2013 08:39:31 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: weekly periodic security status
Message-ID:  <20130825063931.GH24767@caravan.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkyw28xibzpAkGxj9O9HHHikW=zfwNHh7nn6bXJ6xn8gg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 06:03:37PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 10:41:56AM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> > Well, whatever, if you have any concerns, objections or comments, please
> >> > speak now :).
> >>
> >> This LGTM but please include a comment above the warning with a date /
> >> release number when this compatibility can be removed.
> >
> > If the old variable names are deprecated in releng/10, they can be
> > removed in releng/11, can't they?
> 
> Yes, and this should be indicated in a comment.  When I see
> "deprecated" or "old hack" or similar terms in code it takes some
> archaeology to figure out when it was added and when it could be
> removed.   It would be nice to help the future reader a bit.

The purpose of my question was to know what to put in the comment ;-).
Thanks for pointing this out.

-- 
Jeremie Le Hen

Scientists say the world is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons.
They forgot to mention Morons.



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