Re: Making deprecated pkgchk nonfunctional?

[Laurent's response mail somehow got lost for me, so I respond via 
cut/paste from the archives.]

"will old .zip packages stil be deployabale with unopkg (i think so) ?" 
 Yes, of course; this does not affect unopkg.

"I suggest writting a message telling to use unopkg explicitelly, ..." 
pkgchk already does that (for quite some time now).

-Stephan

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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:58:31 +0100
From: Laurent Godard <lgodard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [dev] Making deprecated pkgchk nonfunctional?


Hi stephan

> pkgchk is a deprecated command line tool bundled with OOo (at least
> deprecated since OOo 2.0, and clearly saying so on every invocation) for
> which unopkg is the functionally superior replacement (available for a
> long time now, even before OOo 2.0).
>

will old .zip packages stil be deployabale with unopkg (i think so) ?

> Would anybody have problems changing pkgchk in OOo 2.2 so that it just
> does exit(EXIT_FAILURE)?  (Completely dropping it from OOo 2.2 would not
> work with the StarOffice update feature.  Dropping it would still have
> to wait until OOo 3.)  Let me know if you have any concerns, otherwise I
> will go ahead.
>

I suggest writting a message telling to use unopkg explicitelly,
otherwise some user may be lost (english onlyis fine, i think as it is a
command line tool)

Laurent