A policy for removing named.conf options.

[Leroy Tennison]

First of all, I appreciate the fact that you are seeking feedback before acting, thank you.



I agree with Warren's point about logs and, unfortunately, also with his analysis concerning distributions.  A couple of additional comments.



The major Linux distributions are moving to systemd (whether we like it or not), whatever is done has to take that into account.

The only thing you have (the most) control over is the software you produce, another approach would be to add a generic message facility to all your utilities that, for example, displays the contents of a file at startup (if it exists).  Daemon startup could check the configuration files and generate the content of the displayed file ("You're using 'blah' option which is depreciated, see http://...").  This way, if an administrator uses any of your utilities, they see the message.  For "extra credit", add a "don't display this message again" option.  If an administrator manages to support your software without using any of your utilities then they are capable of remediating their own problems.

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From: bind-users <bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org> on behalf of Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 8:37 AM
To: Warren Kumari
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: A policy for removing named.conf options.

Hi Warren and everybody,

first, let me thank for the fruitful discussion!

> On 13 Jun 2019, at 15:18, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:
>
> Many many people don't look at their logs -- could named also print
> stuff to (stdout, stderr) when starting?
>
> Note that this will require some testing -- various distributions use
> various init scripts - in many cases things printed at startup don't
> actually make it to the console, and I'm suspecting some init systems
> will barf, but...

It's undermentioned in the policy proposal, but the named-checkconf
will be loud about the deprecated options.  We can then bug distros to
integrate the named-checkconf run into the pre/postinst maintainer scripts.
(Hey myself, fix the Debian package. Ok, myself...)

> Another phased approach would be to require users to acknowledge that
> the feature is being deprecated -- initially it could warn, and then
> named could require command line flags to enable the (being)
> deprecated features, and then in the next release they would stop (e.g
> named --enable_deprecated_cleaning-interval). I think that this is way
> overkill, but just a thought.

That would take 4 full years to deprecate single option, as we need to take
people that upgrade from ESV to ESV into account, and we were aiming
at slightly "faster" approach :-).

Thanks,
--
Ondřej Surý
ondrej at isc.org

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