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

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Robert P. J. Day wrote:

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.


Yup.

OBSOLETE = might be broken, no one is planning to maintain it.
BROKEN = known to be broken.

They're by and large orthogonal.

	-hpa
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