[nmh-workers] Novel Definition of Deprecation.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ken,

I thought a deprecating a part of nmh meant add the warning it was for
the axe in release N and axing it in release M where M>N.  But commit
43d9833b,
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/commit/?id=43d9833bf1dcf38c7892a23951bf1d968028a15e
adds this to docs/pending-release-notes:

    - The generation and verification of Content-MD5 headers is no longer
      performed.  The -check and -nocheck switches to various nmh programs
      that would control this functionality still exist, but are non-functional
      and will be removed in the next release.

That's axing the feature without deprecation and trying to hoodwink the
user that it hasn't happened.  :-(

Either it should be deprecated, or axed in a release without
forewarning.  And if the latter then is that agreement we can do it for
other things too?  After all, many users don't read the release notes
and thus miss the deprecation warnings, or they upgrade several of our
releases in one bound due to their distro, etc., striding differently,
so a feature is effectively axed for them without warning anyway.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.