John Marino wrote:
From porters handbook, section 12.15:
"It is possible to set DEPRECATED without an EXPIRATION_DATE (for instance,
recommending a newer version of the port)
I'd consider that to be a bug.
So it's not a contradiction. Ports that have a specific removal date must
have EXPIRATION_DATE set. If you say, well DEPRECATION implies removal, I'd
agree, but it's at an indefinite time and I'd say that time would come when
portmaster no longer works on the current ports tree. When that happens (and
it probably will happen) then EXPIRATION can be set.
Non-standard uses of the term "deprecated" are problematic from a
usability perspective. Since there is currently no deprecation messages
(apologies for the misunderstanding, I haven't used portmaster) at least
(TZ) add an install-time WARNING so we can avoid misleading potential
portmaster users (and related mailing lists threads/topics).
IMO,
Roger
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