From: Nicholas Clark Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Clarify that patching deprecate.pm is intended to facilitate a staged transition. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b951c6bd21aaa8bad64b23f0ff9662ffff763ffa;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Clarify that patching deprecate.pm is intended to facilitate a staged transition. --- diff --git a/pod/perl5120delta.pod b/pod/perl5120delta.pod index 1519850..38b9d7e 100644 --- a/pod/perl5120delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5120delta.pod @@ -743,7 +743,11 @@ deprecation warnings. Alternatively, you may want to consider patching F to provide deprecation warnings specific to your packaging system or -distribution of Perl. +distribution of Perl, consistent with how your packaging system or +distribution manages a staged transition from a release where the +installation of a single package provides the given functionality, to a later +release where the system administrator needs to know to install multiple +packages to get that same functionality. =over