Hi, On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:17:12PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > The overrides is a mechanism to forsibly correct some values that > > dh-make-perl guesses wrong. > > Thanks for the explanation, until now I never understood what they > are actually supposed to do :) Hehe. And I never knew that it existed. > > I think overrides are hardly ever used, and would like to try to phase > > them out. I suggest a three stage process: > > > > * declare overrides as deprecated. The sample override file is moved > > to examples and marked as deprecated with a pointer to this thread > > for "objections". > > A warning is issued whenever an override file is discovered. > > Everithing still works as before. > > * wait for some months (squeeze?) for feedback from users. > > * either drop it or keep it (but with rationale) > > > > Alternatively, we may drop the feature right away, issuing a warning > > ("overrides no longer used") when an override file is found and see if > > we get any bug reports :) > > Or just wait a week and see what people say here; if noone > uses/favours overrides drop them right away, otherwise go the > deprecation route. Seconded. Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - abe@deuxchevaux.org, abe@noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/
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