In message <202003101541.02affpiy065...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. 
Grimes"
writes:
> > On March 10, 2020 6:42:30 AM PDT, Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >> Sorry for being snippy. It's a bad day here, client-wise, and it's
> > >spilling
> > >> over here.
> > >
> > >No apology necessary, I'm sorry I didn't coordinate more closely with
> > >you on the actual svn commit. I had this change in my WIP tree since
> > >November and just got back to it. Given the elapsed time since we last
> > >discussed it I ought to have sent a reminder/refreshed the discussion.
> > 
> > I think a FreeBSD version bump might still be needed. Though ports or other
>  software might simply check for the existence of /usr/sbin/amd instead. 
> > 
> > I should put a deprecation flag into the port though I haven't thought abou
> t the expiry date yet. Probably at 12 EOL.
>
> Since 13 is not going to include amd that would be ending both the base and p
> ort version at the same time, perhaps keep the port to 13.0 EOL to give a sli
> ght window when someone upgrades to 13 and finds out amd is gone they can go 
> to the port for a quick but short lived fixed.
>
> Perhaps big giant warnings all over the port too that it is about to EOL?

Does adding DEPRECATED= without EXPIRATION_DATE= and a comment to add 
EXPIRATION_DATE for 13 EOL date sound ok?

DEPRECATED prints warnings.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <c...@freebsd.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

        The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.


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