Moin Rahman wrote on 11/6/24 3:01 PM:
On Nov 6, 2024, at 13:40, Igor Ostapenko <ig...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Hi,
Kyua has been part of base since 13.0, today it means all supported versions.
The tests in /usr/tests usually have parity with Kyua in base, i.e. even if we
consider older unsupported systems then new features from the latest port offer
limited benefits. Anyway, these cases are not supported.
So, in order to avoid double work and user confusion, the devel/kyua port is
being considered for removal.
The motivation of this notification is to collect comments and suggestions in
case if the removal is not a good idea for some reasons.
Best regards,
igoro
Hi,
I am not exactly sure if the one in 13/stable is the updated
one as I merged the latest code into the head and 14/stable.
That's why I planned to kill it sometimes during the EOL of
13.
But correct me if I am wrong.
I have not checked the stable/13, but I know that the recent MFC of Kyua
changes in head was targeting stable/14 only, i.e. 13 was not considered
intentionally. And I think stable/13 must be fine having its old set of
tests which must be executable by the version of Kyua in its base.
That's great to hear that similar reasoning has been applied before and
it's already targeted for removal. The only thing I suggest to do is
adding DEPRECATED with a message that the base version must be used
instead. We've recently faced a fail case when users run the latest test
suite with the older Kyua from ports, that leads to unexpected errors
developers should not spend time on. The deprecation notice is not going
to save us, but it's at least something.
Please, check this proposal: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D47473
Kind regards,
Moin
