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On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 12:25:19PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 07/09/2018 12:54:37+0300, Jani Nikula wrote:

> > The only real downside that I can see is that it centralizes the
> > deprecation information in the semantic patch instead of the functions
> > themselves.

> Which is not bad because how do you expect maintainers to learn about
> the deprecation?
> I don't think anyone will go and read the strcpy's code or
> documentation.

Right, this is the most common pain point I see with these transitions -
people hear about these things through word of mouth which creates
confusion.  This thread is the first time I heard about strscpy()
existing, let alone that the other variants were deprecated in favour of
it.  A similar thing happened with the SPDX tags, people were querying
what was going on with the patches and links to mailing list posts were
getting passed around.

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