<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Ben Millwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haskell@benmachine.co.uk" target="_blank">haskell@benmachine.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">But surely the *entire purpose* of deprecations is to be *less* damaging than removals, and so if we're implicitly considering them equally bad, that suggests to me that our deprecation mechanism is totally broken, and needs to be fixed.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>If deprecation is not considered to be "removal upcoming, fix your code now" then there is no point to deprecation. I don't understand your point otherwise.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                  <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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