On 01/05/2025 21:17, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
I read some advice recently that suggested taking the time some thing has existed to be a "half-life" for deprecation. So, if the pre-deb822 format has existed for 27 years and we deprecated it now, we can expect 50% of users will have noticed the deprecation by the middle of the century. By the year 2100, a little over 10% of users will still be unaware or unwilling to change. (The original advice suggested raising e to the time the feature had existed, but I think that's excessive. Even so, I like the idea that the longer something has existed, the harder it is to get rid of).On Thu May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:A big red warning (and not error / failure) will bring a much needed kinetic force for the change IMO, on the same lines as the warning when using the old apt-keys stuff.Hence, I request for making deb822 the default format and deprecating the previous .list method with a noisy warning.You ask in the wrong place: try debian-devel, or file a request against the relevant packages (apt?)However, can I point out that the pre-822 format has been around for *27 years*: it's going to take a long time for people who are familiar with it to internalise the new format. Introducing nagging warnings too soon will frustrate people. We will have to be a bit patient.
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