interface deprecation/removal policy

[John Arbash Meinel]

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>> Which means that things deprecated before 2.1b1 would be removed at 2.2b1...
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>> Then again, we can say that if you want the stable w/ deprecations
>> branch, use "bzr.2.0.*" instead...
> 
> John's quite correct that, if this was merged, we'd not be doing what we said
> we would do.
> 
> I think we should consider that policy obsolete by the stable branch thing.
> Possibly we should keep honoring it for six months after we change the policy,
> but then we _are_ going to do that: just on the 2.0 branch not 2.1.
> 
> We should at any rate update the doc.
> 

So I agree. I think it is fine for things to stay as deprecated in the
stable branch, and removed in the dev branch. And it probably only needs
a doc update. I mostly checked there because I was trying to remember
what our original statement was.

John
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