On 6 July 2018 at 15:56, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: > Am 06.07.2018 um 13:11 hat Cornelia Huck geschrieben: >> That way, we can still easily remove old cruft (case (a)), but still >> accommodate cases like this (case (c)). The obvious drawback is that >> we'd need someone to curate the deprecation watchlist, to poke the >> users we're waiting for, and probably remove anyway after some time if >> they don't get their act together. > > The problem is that things are only starting to move after two releases > have passed.
Right, so clearly just "put a note in the documentation" isn't sufficient advertisement/prodding of things going away. (Also, two releases is pretty fast. Many of our users will be using distro packaged versions of QEMU which will lag further behind than bleeding-edge users. The system version of QEMU on my desktop machine is 2.5...) thanks -- PMM
