[Rock-dev] Release: How to drop packages ?

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Janosch Machowinski
<Janosch.Machowinski at dfki.de> wrote:
> Hm,
> would the deprecation mechanism not
> break existing releases ? AFAIK the release
> works on the master package set.

Releases will have pinned package sets. Users have the choice to unpin
those (for instance if they want to use master packages), but they
will have to do it willingly.

If the package gets deprecated in master, the only thing the user will
have is to force-build the package in his manifest.

When the package gets removed from master, that's another story. I
would extend the deprecation period to two release cycles for that
reason. It would make sure that a package is deprecated in master AND
latest-release for one full cycle before it gets removed.

Sylvain