Re: "obsolete" versus "deprecated", and a new config option?

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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:04:20 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" said:
>
> > > How much of the 'OBSOLETE' code should just be labelled 'BROKEN'
> > > instead?
> >
> > the stuff that's actually "broken."  :-)
>
> Right - the question is how much code qualifies as either/both, and
> which we should use when we encounter the random driver that's both
> obsolete *and* broken...

that's entirely a judgment call on the part of the code's maintainer.
if something is both obsolete and broken, then make it depend on
*both* OBSOLETE and BROKEN if you want.  no big deal.

rday
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