[Buildroot] Adding deprecated packages to legacy [was: cups: deprecate package due to security issues]

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Sat Mar 7 00:37:32 UTC 2015


On 06/03/15 14:39, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> It would probably be better to mark it as a legacy option so users get a
> warning when migrating configuration files, but it would require a
> direct removal for that.

 Good point! The legacy handling was added to avoid that selected config options
silently disappear when upgrading, but that's exactly what happens with the
deprecation!

 Technically it will be a bit difficult to implement, however. But perhaps
that's just because it's already late and my brain is turned off :-)

 Regards,
 Arnout

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