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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster
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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