On 2015-09-09, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 9:39:49 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> But this argument completely fails when backwards compatibility is >> involved. Actively removing a feature (even if broken 99% of the time) >> without deprecation is a very exceptional move which should require >> exceptional justification. >> > > You don't need to deprecate bugs; The sooner you cut out an infected > appendix the better.
If a package used to work with the previous Sage release, then making it fail on purpose without deprecation period *IS* a bug. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.