Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > That's long enough for people who actually ran the intermediate > versions. But what about people on distros who jump from v2.10 or lower > straight to v2.14? > > I think to catch them we'd literally need years on our deprecation > schedules. Maybe it's not worth caring about. That's an awful long time > for people who _are_ upgrading each version to see the warning. Of > course the end game in this case is that it becomes an error, so they'll > be notified either way. :) > > I'm OK with this case being a relatively quick deprecation, but your > "long enough" made me wonder how we would decide that. > > -Peff > > [1] Debian stable is set to release in a week or so. People doing that > stable upgrade will go from v2.1.4 to v2.11.0. So they won't > actually skip the deprecation notice, but they'll probably live with > the warning for 3 years or so.
Yuck X-<.
