docs: add deprecation comments

Markup deprecation to command header to avoid people wasting time in
fixing these utilities.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>

diff --git a/disk-utils/elvtune.c b/disk-utils/elvtune.c
index 7c3caedcce935001718132f72aa96f09fa683ac0..7c074ffa62fd722c476181dd8e2c62b73babd0d1 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/elvtune.c
+++ b/disk-utils/elvtune.c
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@
  *  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
  */
 
+/*
+ * This command is deprecated.  The utility is in maintenance mode,
+ * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
+ * only.  Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
+ * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
+ */
+
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>

diff --git a/login-utils/last.c b/login-utils/last.c
index 734730b3a0509a9da21c13a057fd8515cb53b4d4..417314ee596a0f7d12a75e96c4799d7325541f3c 100644 (file)
--- a/login-utils/last.c
+++ b/login-utils/last.c
@@ -26,6 +26,15 @@
   * - using mmap() on Linux - great speed improvement
   */
 
+/*
+ * This command is deprecated.  The utility is in maintenance mode,
+ * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
+ * only.  Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
+ * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
+ */
+
 /*
  * last
  */

diff --git a/login-utils/newgrp.c b/login-utils/newgrp.c
index 98399341695f0890a4127b7b7a73088e382dad8c..707c5893a88220941e05fe84c0ab7d79c841d7e5 100644 (file)
--- a/login-utils/newgrp.c
+++ b/login-utils/newgrp.c
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
  * - added Native Language Support
  */
 
+/*
+ * This command is deprecated.  The utility is in maintenance mode,
+ * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
+ * only.  Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
+ * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
+ */
+
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <getopt.h>
 #include <grp.h>

diff --git a/login-utils/vipw.c b/login-utils/vipw.c
index 92b42313f3ad524106c453debbe61705c538881b..c0ed0b3fb366cf74805d7c51346eb67968d0a2ae 100644 (file)
--- a/login-utils/vipw.c
+++ b/login-utils/vipw.c
@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@
  * - fixed strerr(errno) in gettext calls
  */
 
+/*
+ * This command is deprecated.  The utility is in maintenance mode,
+ * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
+ * only.  Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
+ * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
+ */
+
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <paths.h>

diff --git a/sys-utils/arch.c b/sys-utils/arch.c
index 0c29c3e0cbb5bd08b225a2a20d1df6809081ef39..470b12b9aa29760ebffeed6df550cae7033cb5fd 100644 (file)
--- a/sys-utils/arch.c
+++ b/sys-utils/arch.c
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@
  * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
  */
 
+/*
+ * This command is deprecated.  The utility is in maintenance mode,
+ * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
+ * only.  Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
+ * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
+ */
+
 #include <err.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <getopt.h>

diff --git a/text-utils/line.c b/text-utils/line.c
index 826e5a25928a3a3fdb614e641fde99100192849f..636122e0151e65b36ae8f31bb334d013ade66cee 100644 (file)
--- a/text-utils/line.c
+++ b/text-utils/line.c
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
  * Public Domain.
  */
 
+/*
+ * This command is deprecated.  The utility is in maintenance mode,
+ * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
+ * only.  Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
+ * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
+ *
+ * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
+ */
+
 #include       <stdio.h>
 #include       <unistd.h>