Peter via Postfix-users:
> > A quick status update.
> >
> > First, several features have been logging warnings that they would
> > be removed for 10 years or more, so we could delete them in good
> > conscience (perhaps keeping the warning with the suggested alternative).
> > This change has not yet been made.
Note that this IS a breaking change: features are removed. But
there have been warnings for 10+ years that this was coming.
> > Next, I have added new warnings for the following features, so that
> > they can be removed some 5 years down the road.
> ...
> > The present state is in postfix-3.9-20240218. I have slienced the
> > noisy warnings for deprecated and unused configuration parameters
> > so that they are not logged while upgrading or installing Postfix.
> > The warnings are still logged, once, with postfix start, start-fg,
> > check, reload, or status.
>
> Just a quick thought here. I think it would make sense to release this
> as Postfix 4.0 since removing and deprecating a large number of features
> should probably be considered quite a major change.
I'm not sure that I follow. This is not a breaking change. it just logs
a reminder that there will be a breaking change a few years from now.
Wietse
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