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Date:      Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:10:13 +0100
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        koobs@FreeBSD.org, marino@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@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:  <56A88975.7030601@marino.st>
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On 1/27/2016 10:06 AM, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 27/01/2016 7:58 PM, John Marino wrote:
>> likely be phased out (assuming nothing changes)
> 
> You added a 'likely' there that is different than the definition, which
> eludes to 'active' phasing out.
> 
> There is a gap between current state and what DEPRECATED implies. They
> are not identical.
> 

Anything deprecated has its days numbered, but I disagree that "active"
is implied.  Only if EXPIRATION_DATE is defined would that be
reasonable.  We have many ports that have indefinite DEPRECATION.  It's
a "use at your own risk" situation.

Besides that, what's the practical difference between "active" and
"eventual" ?  The end result is the same, regardless if EXPIRATION_DATE
is defined or not.



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