Deprecations

Dr Paul Dale paul.dale at oracle.com
Thu Mar 5 00:06:53 UTC 2020


Matthew,

Good idea.  I’ll add it.


Pauli
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Dr Paul Dale | Distinguished Architect | Cryptographic Foundations 
Phone +61 7 3031 7217
Oracle Australia




> On 5 Mar 2020, at 8:55 am, Matthew Lindner <M.Lindner at f5.com> wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't the deprecation notice that's printed also print the version it was deprecated in?
> 
> - Matthew Lindner
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Dr Paul Dale <paul.dale at oracle.com <mailto:paul.dale at oracle.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> EXTERNAL MAIL: openssl-project-bounces at openssl.org <mailto:openssl-project-bounces at openssl.org>
>> 
>> Unless I’ve missed something, the documentation should specify the alternatives.  Mostly these are one to one, but in one case it is one to two (and there both are listed).
>> With the caveat that I might not have got every place or detail correct.
>> 
>> Moreover, the deprecated commands print something to the effect of: "The command dsa is deprecated. Use ‘pkey’ instead." when executed.
>> 
>> 
>> Pauli
>> -- 
>> Dr Paul Dale | Distinguished Architect | Cryptographic Foundations 
>> Phone +61 7 3031 7217
>> Oracle Australia
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5 Mar 2020, at 5:15 am, Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be <mailto:kurt at roeckx.be>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:41:57AM +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 28/02/2020 23:43, Dr Paul Dale wrote:
>>>>> Any suggestions for a consensus on this thread?
>>>> 
>>>> I think we can probably agree that:
>>>> 
>>>> - Command option deprecations should be handled better
>>>> - We should look at whether we can resurrect some of the "old" commands
>>>> (possibly by writing them as wrappers for genpkey, pkey and pkeyutl)
>>> 
>>> What about at least pointing to the alternative function in the
>>> documentation?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Kurt
>>> 
>> 
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