Worthless updates

[Jesse Keating]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 02:11 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but
> > here is the kicker.  The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11.  So these
> > functions aren't actually deprecated in F11.  So... why is this update
> > going out?
> 
> How do you know that all people over the globe who are using F-11, are
> running perl-5.10.0-82.fc11? They could as well have installed another
> version manually.
> 

In which case they would need to deal with the fallout thereof.  And
even then, it's a deprecated function, not a removed function.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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