Hello, a generic addedum: On Apr 16 11:39 Richard Brown wrote (excerpt):
SuSE-release contained the following information for almost_FIVE_YEARS_ (Since Nov 2013)
"# /etc/SuSE-release is deprecated and will be removed in the future, use /etc/os-release instead"
From the user's point of view things may look different:
Assume 'the user' is a 'normal end-user': Then he probably never had read the content of the file that got now removed, i.e. a 'normal end-user' may not know about the deprecation info (regardless how long it was there). What happens for a 'normal end-user' when that file got finally actually removed is that "something else" does no longer work and that is what a 'normal end-user' recognizes. Now with some 'normal end-user' debugging he may even find out that a particular file does no longer exist and complain about that. Unfortunately 'normal end-users' too often complain instead of only describing their particular issue, cf. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html Assume 'the user' is a developer of that "something else": Even the developers of that "something else" software may never read that deprecation info because as long as their "something else" works there is nothing that indicates in an obvious way that a deprecation issue is lurking around. Simply put: In general deprecation info does not work in practice. In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org