On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Thomas Anderson<[email protected]> wrote: > While writing the devmanual patch that I agreed to write for removal of > eclasses I came across the very vague definition of "deprecating" > eclasses before removal. Ulrich(last name ommitted to avoid stabbing ;-) ) > and we came up with the following for the process of deprecating an > eclass: > > a. make sure nothing in the tree uses it any more > b. announce deprecation on -dev > c. put a warning in pkg_setup > d. add a line containing exactly "# @DEAD" for vapier's man pages > > Please vote so we don't have to go over this in a meeting. I personally > am fine with it, but my vote matters little. > > -- > --------- > Thomas Anderson > Gentoo Developer > ///////// > Areas of responsibility: > AMD64, Secretary to the Gentoo Council > --------- >
Looks good from here. ++ -- Doug Goldstein
