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Re: mem*/strr*/etc... obsolete warnings


From: Mike Frysinger
Subject: Re: mem*/strr*/etc... obsolete warnings
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:40:21 -0500
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On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:11:33 Bruno Haible wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > any reason for not adding a note when
> > warning about obsolete stuff ?  rather than updating every module that is
> > marked obsolete, the gnulib tool itself could include the pointer.
>
> Hmm. Neither of these two options looks really good: A larger notice in
> every modules file is hard to maintain. And letting gnulib-tool show extra
> text would mix up the semantics of the 'Status' and of the 'Notice' field.

i mean something simple like this (and the output from gnulib-tool still looks 
sane to me):
--- a/modules/memcpy
+++ b/modules/memcpy
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Status:
 obsolete

 Notice:
-This module is obsolete.
+This module is obsolete (see gnulib.info::Obsolete modules).

 Files:
 lib/memcpy.c
-mike

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