[lsb-discuss] roadmap synchronization and backward compatibility (was: Re: Needed network interfaces)

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Wed Jul 26 07:46:34 PDT 2006


 

>Of course, we'll have a deprecation policy, so that interfaces can
>be removed if needed. The current policy is that interfaces have
>to be marked "deprecated" for a full major version before they are
>removed. In the conference call a few weeks back, it was decided that
>this was too short a period of time. The current proposal is to extend
>that to three cycles, or roughly six years. The upshot of this is
>we want to be very deliberate in what we add to
>the LSB, as anything we add will be with us for a very long time.

In light of this feeling I don't think we can make a deprecation
policy absolute.  Three full major releases is DEFINITELY too
long for some issues, and if we apply that to something that the
distributions have indeed chosen to remove we're going to get a
lot of pushback for forcing them to keep it around longer.




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