manual: clarify handling of deprecated features

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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Thomas De Schampheleire 2014-01-21 08:54:09 +01:00 committed by Peter Korsgaard
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@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Deprecated features
------------------- -------------------
The following features are marked as _deprecated_ in Buildroot due to The following features are marked as _deprecated_ in Buildroot due to
their status either too old or unmaintained. them being either too old or unmaintained. They will be removed at
some point, so stop using them.
Each deprecated symbol in kconfig depends on a symbol
+BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_xxxx_xx+, which provides an indication of when
the feature can be removed: features will not be removed within the
year following deprecation. For example, a symbol depending on
+BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2013_05+ can be removed from 2014.05 onwards.
include::deprecated-list.txt[] include::deprecated-list.txt[]