Well I don't suppose we will ever see the word "deprecated" in any of your Info or man pages, even though it is part of good software practices.
Apparently the GNU policy is, first an item silently disappears from a man or info page, then later the functionality is removed from the binary. Or even all at the same time. Contrast this with python, which even gives "future warnings". I urge you to mark on your man and info pages today anything that you know will go away tomorrow. The impression when something still works but one can't find it in the documents anymore is that the maintainers have misformatted their documentation. Therefore say it is deprecated, like everybody else does. Users won't look in the source code for what should be in the man page; and we don't install source distributions anyway. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
