On 06/19/2017 06:20 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> The GNOME team has committed the xdg-utils.eclass serving exactly
> the same purpose as fdo-mime.eclass, supposedly with the goal of
> replacing it. However, it seems that they have never bothered to
> actually hint the deprecation in the fdo-mime.eclass in any way.
> As a result, developers are still adding references to this eclass
> instead of using xdg-utils or xdg, and/or not working towards replacing
> them.
> 
> Add an explicit deprecation notice to the fdo-mime.eclass to make it
> clear that the eclass should not be used in new packages, and what
> the replacement eclasses are.
> ---
>  eclass/fdo-mime.eclass | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/eclass/fdo-mime.eclass b/eclass/fdo-mime.eclass
> index b3b096d154e7..8e51d8a69df1 100644
> --- a/eclass/fdo-mime.eclass
> +++ b/eclass/fdo-mime.eclass
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation
> +# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
>  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
>  
>  # @ECLASS: fdo-mime.eclass
> @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
>  # @AUTHOR:
>  # Original author: foser <foser@gentoo.org>
>  # @BLURB: Utility eclass to update the desktop mime info as laid out in the freedesktop specs & implementations
> +# @DESCRIPTION:
> +# This eclass is DEPRECATED. Please use xdg-utils or xdg instead.
>  
>  # @FUNCTION: fdo-mime_desktop_database_update
>  # @DESCRIPTION:
> 
Looks good to me. Thanks for looking out for stuff like this.

That aside, isn't this supposed to be standard operating procedure if a
developer is deprecating an eclass? And similarly with the removal of an
eclass, all ebuilds getting updated by the developer or team that
prompted the removal of the eclass?

My apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I want to be sure what's
expected, just in case I need to touch an eclass.

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