handbook: Don't mention svnlite; it's obsolete

[trasz]

Summary

The svnlite(1) utility has been removed from 14-CURRENT in 0333fad1b7e,
in Jun 2021.

[pauamma_gundo.com]

Isn't complete removal premature? Following my first draft of tracking portsnap deprecation in the handbook, I was told to mention it was going away but otherwise just qualify language saying to use it with the applicable version(s).

[trasz]

I think this is a slightly different situation, because svnlite has already been removed from 14-CURRENT. Portsnap is still there.

Btw, if portsnap is deprecated, should we perhaps mention it in the man page?

[debdrup]

The handbook is as much, if not more, for -RELEASE than it is for -CURRENT - so I'm of the belief that something is in the process of being deprecated when it has been removed in -CURRENT and until it's final existence in the last -RELEASE is end-of-life'd.

So I think it's very premature to remove either svnlite or portsnap from the handbook until 13.x-RELEASE is EOL.

[trasz]

It's been removed from stable/13, from what I can see. Not in stable/12, though, and it's still there for users of 13.0-RELEASE. I'd personally lean towards removing it, because it's not a feature or functionality being removed - rather, it's removal of specific way of getting to that functionality, making users use using svnlite(1) instead of installing svn(1) from packages, which is something they will do anyway after they upgrade, so why not switch sooner?

Having said that, I don't really have any strong preference, so we can just defer this review until svnlite(1) is gone from released versions.

[pauamma_gundo.com]

In D33967#768353, @trasz wrote:

Btw, if portsnap is deprecated, should we perhaps mention it in the man page?

In the -current manual page, at least. Probably MFC that to the -stable releases where it's being removed as well, I guess.

[trasz]

In D33967#768557, @pauamma_gundo.com wrote:

In D33967#768353, @trasz wrote:

Btw, if portsnap is deprecated, should we perhaps mention it in the man page?

In the -current manual page, at least. Probably MFC that to the -stable releases where it's being removed as well, I guess.

We should probably also remove references to portsnap from other manual pages?

Is there eg a wiki page tracking this?

[pauamma_gundo.com]

In D33967#768858, @trasz wrote:

We should probably also remove references to portsnap from other manual pages?

Is there eg a wiki page tracking this?

Not that I could see, and I don't have near enough visibility of the current deprecation and removal timeline to throw one together.

[trasz]

Let's leave this until svnlite(1) becomes unsupported in STABLE.