[rfc] better deprecation warnings (was Re: warning on FC5 with

[Aaron Bentley]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2007, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just updated bzr to 0.13 on my FC5 box using with yum, but received
>> some warning messages. Should this be an issue with FC5 or bzr? How do
>> I fix this? Thanks.

> As Alexander says, the immediate fix is to update bzrtools, but it is
> not completely obvious that you should do this.  (Later versions of
> bzrtools will give a warning if they're out of date, but I think that is
> specific to them.)

OTOH, since TK is using yum, it shouldn't let him upgrade bzr without
upgrading bzrtools.  The problem is that the bzrtools rpms just depend
on bzr and don't specify a version.

Sigh.  After we just went through this with Debian.  It's nice to have
my work be packaged by major distros, but occasionally frustrating too.

Aaron
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFqbnm0F+nu1YWqI0RAtIYAJ4zqY/UT4pbzzp4WhoE6Q3dxgHJVwCcCrux
i/SGbrFAXGEI1R2YXapiECk=
=86i1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----