Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:50:48 -0500
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
You've been pushing very hard to renaming things to deprecated_foo for
a while now. I think I'm not the only other maintainer who doesn't
understand or approve. It's a lot of work for you; it generates large
patches and source churn; it causes patch rejects and merge errors for
other developers; and the rest of us don't see or agree on the benefit.
FWIW, I generally approve of the practice to rename deprecated
features _assuming_that_they_are_on_their_way_to_oblivion_. That
way, we give people/ports some time to prepare themselves for the
removal, or to mount a campaign against such removal.
But renaming code that isn't going to go away, but to be simply
rewritten in a trivial way, is indeed a terrible waste of our
resources, IMHO.