conan-io / conan-center-index

Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
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[docs] Add recipe deprecation policy #9902

Open danimtb opened 2 years ago

danimtb commented 2 years ago

Related to https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/9900

AFAIK the deprecation policy is still not added to the documentation although we already have some recipes that went through that process.

jgsogo commented 2 years ago

I think this is the FAQ: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/blob/master/docs/faqs.md#what-is-the-policy-for-removing-older-versions-of-a-package

danimtb commented 2 years ago

@jgsogo no, that is a FAQ for the removal of old versions of a reference. Here I am referring to the deprecation of the complete recipe that can happen because of different reasons: