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| author | Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> | 2014-01-21 08:54:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> | 2014-01-21 21:56:46 +0100 |
| commit | aa1845e813e764729eed2a4b562a0ec5b91888ba (patch) | |
| tree | 6b048faf50cfc4d4c427eab129a8558f8d39c7af /docs/manual/appendix.txt | |
| parent | 221ef3a3ee7bad3955040b6a91eed012277307fb (diff) | |
| download | buildroot-aa1845e813e764729eed2a4b562a0ec5b91888ba.tar.gz buildroot-aa1845e813e764729eed2a4b562a0ec5b91888ba.zip | |
manual: clarify handling of deprecated features
Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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diff --git a/docs/manual/appendix.txt b/docs/manual/appendix.txt index 74ee8fd4b8..a83ecea1a7 100644 --- a/docs/manual/appendix.txt +++ b/docs/manual/appendix.txt @@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Deprecated features ------------------- The following features are marked as _deprecated_ in Buildroot due to -their status either too old or unmaintained. +them being either too old or unmaintained. They will be removed at +some point, so stop using them. +Each deprecated symbol in kconfig depends on a symbol ++BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx+, which provides an indication of when +the feature can be removed: features will not be removed within the +year following deprecation. For example, a symbol depending on ++BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2013_05+ can be removed from 2014.05 onwards. include::deprecated-list.txt[] |
