Re: [PATCH] docs/system: clarify deprecation scheduled

The sentence explaining the deprecation schedule is ambiguous. Make it clear that a feature deprecated in the Nth release is guaranteed to remain available in the N+1th release. Removal can occur in the N+2nd release or later. As an example of this in action, see commit 25956af3fe5dd0385ad8017bc768a6afe41e2a74 ("block: Finish deprecation of 'qemu-img convert -n -o'"). The feature was deprecated in QEMU 4.2.0. It was present in the 5.0.0 release and removed in the 5.1.0 release. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/system/deprecated.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index 851dbdeb8a..fecfb2f1c1 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Deprecated features In general features are intended to be supported indefinitely once introduced into QEMU. In the event that a feature needs to be removed, it will be listed in this section. The feature will remain functional -for 2 releases prior to actual removal. Deprecated features may also -generate warnings on the console when QEMU starts up, or if activated -via a monitor command, however, this is not a mandatory requirement. +for 1 more release after deprecation. Deprecated features may also generate +warnings on the console when QEMU starts up, or if activated via a monitor +command, however, this is not a mandatory requirement. Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how long features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor -- 2.26.2