On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 07:44:03 PM Chris Bannister wrote: > > How do you call it when software or an administrator is being > > deprecated, i. e. the process of deprecating something/making something > > I can only think of the word "redundant" (surplus to requirements) at > the moment. e.g. The administrator was made redundant because of > restructuring.
I believe the idiom you are looking for is 'put out to pasture': it is no longer needed in any way and serves no function, but remains until death and the knacker has carted it off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201209122115.48848.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu