Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:36:01 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Martin Wilke <miwi.fbsd@gmail.com>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, "svn-ports-all@FreeBSD.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-head@FreeBSD.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Message-ID: <20160127093601.GA54242@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <56A88489.5020507@FreeBSD.org> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> <CAFY%2ByEkOv9-JaJv45WF-GzTxOiFh6k8sZ4rysUS5xTZs=rWNrA@mail.gmail.com> <56A86CAD.7030507@marino.st> <56A8747E.5080703@FreeBSD.org> <20160127081700.GA20812@FreeBSD.org> <56A87FCE.6080305@FreeBSD.org> <20160127084230.GA28230@FreeBSD.org> <56A88489.5020507@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:49:13PM +1100, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > [...] > 3. Computers: To mark (a component of a software standard) as obsolete > to warn against its use in the future so that it may be phased out. Right, and it does way "may be", not "will [eventually] be" or something. Yet every time someone puts a DEPRECATED without EXPIRATION_DATE, someone else will ask why is that. I don't like it. I often want to deprecate a port but stay as long as it works (while alternatives are better, there might be special cases when a user might to actually prefer deprecated port -- e.g. because it builds on their Tier-42 platform where recommeded one does not). ./danfe
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