From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:37:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Adding deprecated packages to legacy [was: cups: deprecate package due to security issues] In-Reply-To: <1425649164-31813-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> References: <1425649164-31813-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> Message-ID: <54FA484C.7000905@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 06/03/15 14:39, Gustavo Zacarias wrote: > It would probably be better to mark it as a legacy option so users get a > warning when migrating configuration files, but it would require a > direct removal for that. Good point! The legacy handling was added to avoid that selected config options silently disappear when upgrading, but that's exactly what happens with the deprecation! Technically it will be a bit difficult to implement, however. But perhaps that's just because it's already late and my brain is turned off :-) Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F