Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] New getprogname module

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Pino Toscano <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:47:15 CEST Jim Meyering wrote:
...
> Another thing: should some deprecation warning/note be added regarding
> the progname module?

I like the idea of adding a deprecation warning.
If it could be completely replaced, I'd suggest to add the "Status:
deprecated" attribute to its modules file, but we don't have a
replacement for set_program_name, so there may still be legitimate
uses. If a future change were to move set_program_name into its own
new module, *then*, we could officially deprecate the progname module.

> Is NEWS the proper place for them? Attached there
> is a small documentation addendum.

Good idea.
While this is not officially an incompatible change, converting is
invasive enough that this NEWS blurb belongs in that section.

I've split a long sentence and merged that into your first commit.
And pushed.

>> I'm prepared to push the attached, but will wait for your ack.

If you're interested, one more thing that may help avoid trouble would
be to add a syntax-check rule to prohibit new uses of this module,
including new inclusion of progname.h, new declarations of
program_name or anything else you can think of that should no longer
be done here in gnulib.