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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:25:13 GMT
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: bb63e82e8c10 - main - bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)
Message-ID:  <202310100725.39A7PDHJ088191@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by bapt:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=bb63e82e8c109156b31e806fac8ecefbd259a0ed

commit bb63e82e8c109156b31e806fac8ecefbd259a0ed
Author:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-10-10 07:24:25 +0000
Commit:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-10-10 07:24:25 +0000

    bsddialog(1): document the replacement of dialog(1)
---
 RELNOTES |  3 +++
 UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index c5686a4f30fb..880cec5d3fe1 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ newline.  Entries should be separated by a newline.
 
 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+ff01d71e48d4:
+	dialog(1) has been replace by bsddialog(1)
+
 41582f28ddf7:
 	FreeBSD 15.0 will not include support for 32-bit platforms.
 	However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index a1bcecadd357..0064e53c7a53 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20231010:
+	dialog(1) has been replaced in base by bsddialog(1), while most of the
+	time replacing a dialog(1) call by a bsddialog(1) call works out of the
+	box, bsddialog(1) is not considered as a drop-in replacement dialog(1).
+
+	If you do depend on dialog(1) functionnality, please install cdialog
+	from ports:
+
+	pkg install cdialog
+
 20230927:
 	The EARLY_AP_STARTUP kernel option is mandatory on x86.  The option
 	has been added to DEFAULTS, so it should automatically be included in



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